Joe, Reality always depends on an observer perspective on it. Without an observer there is no way to verify that reality even exists.... However everything that exists can be considered a generic observer. Thus reality consists of all observer perspectives on all observers including itself....
Edgar On Apr 23, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Joe wrote: > I was thinking of being at sea. Something I read today reminded me of this. > > When you're at sea, far from any land, you can look around from the deck or > crow's nest and see the ocean. Look in any direction. Keep turning. Stand > still and take a wide-angle view, too. > > What do you see? Ocean; sky. What about the ocean? It looks... round. > > Is "round" an experience? > > You certainly get -- have -- a SENSE of round. And there's very little else > going on to distract you. > > So, maybe the experience is of "round". > > Is this an illusion? Is it a delusion? Is it an experience? > > Now, go ahead and take a commercial flight into space, or sub-space, in a few > years. Out the porthole, you can have a look at an ocean. You can see a shape > to it. Is this seeing an experience? An illusion, a delusion? Doe the ocean > look round? No; the ocean does not look round. > > Will the "real" Ocean please stand up? > > --Joe > >
