The ancient Egyptians were the first to identify 'mirror' with first-person experience, some 5000 years ago.
The word "ankh" means both 'life' and 'mirror' since full living-reality was what visually appears represented on the surface of 'mirrors'. Whether there was 'self-experience' there or not was another issue; it was sufficient to observe tht identical 'observable phenomena' were there in both 'places'. :-) Jamie Rose Ceptual Institute Colin Hales wrote: > > Dear Everythingers, > > This is a query placed as a result of failing to succeed to find answers > when googling my way around the place for a very long time (2 years). I am > about to conclude that a) no such discourse exists or b) that it is > disguised in a form of physics/math that my searching has not uncovered. > > I know it is off-topic but I thought I'd run it by you folk as the most > eclectic agglomerators of knowledge in the multiverse. Off-list replies > welcome - keep the noise down and all that. > > Q. What branch of science has ascertained the role and status of the image > in a first person perspective of a mirror? .ie. 'be' the mirror. > > The answer 'there ain't one as far as I know' is as acceptable as anything. > I just need to know what's out there. If there's nothing there then I take > it I'm in that breezy lonely spot past the front lines of epistemology and > trundle on assuming (a) above. > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > > Colin Hales
