Thursday
Nov032011
« An Eye Sees But the "I" Doesn't »
Thursday, November 3, 2011 We are all (epistemologically) blind.
We do not actually see. We visualize instead. We "envision," i.e. imagine. And we have learned to cross-reference our imaginings of reality into a consensus of a mirage that we call "objective reality."
This sounds complex but it is rather simple: imagine a world of literally blind people who use their basic means of communication to "map" the objective world that they subsequently navigate and "see."
And now imagine that this is literally the case. After all, no occipital lobe of a human brain has ever seen the light.
An eye sees, but the "I" (the mind's eye) doesn't.

