{Ron]
> the truth is only known to you.
> It's about developing that within yourself
> not a concrete definition that is
> universally agreed upon.Platt: But as you know, Buddhists and others here and elsewhere claim the "self" is just an illusion. I guess this means anything you-the- illusion believe to be true is also just an illusion. Makes one wonder how we manage to get through the day -- but since "we" and "days" are illusions, too, we can only conclude that reality is but a dream. But, somehow I think it would be hard to convince a survivor of a suicide bomber that her experience was just a figment of her imagination. Ron: an illusion is a perception not a hallucination. Typically when we use the term illusion often we conceptualize it as a hallucination. Something that does not exist. This is not so. wikipedia defines ; The term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination> , which is a distortion in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation. For example, hearing voices regardless of the environment would be a hallucination, whereas hearing voices in the sound of running water (or other auditory source) would be an illusion. The human brain constructs a world inside our head based on what it samples from the surrounding environment. However sometimes it tries to organise this information it thinks best while other times it fills in the gaps. This way in which our brain works is the basis of an illusion. When we say objective reality is an illusion we are not saying that stimuli does not exist, we are saying that stimuli perceived as Things in themselves are a sensory distortion. Illusions exploit the assumptions about the physical world. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
