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Sensery Input, Nothings Real, Mabye
I have been reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence, and he brings up this concept at one point, that's been in my head for a while now. He talk's about how everything that we call reality, consist's completly of what our sense's receive. Think of a person, that was born without any sense's, can't see, can't hear, can't feel, can't smell and can't taste, he is fed intravenously or otherwize kept alive. What is going on in his head? does he really have a mind at all? he would have no perception of reality! So, if our minds only recieve reality through our sense's, and our sense's are fool so often, how can anyone be sure about reality at all? Just think of the movie, like the moving film, it's just different pictures moving very fast and tricks us into thinking that its moving, what if reality is like that? but its all moving so fast and in such a way that it tricks all 5 sense's into thinking that this is what reality is. This sort of thing has been running around in my head for a long time, and its driving me nuts.
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The Above post is a direct quote from Shakespeare
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