Wednesday, October 21, 2009

A Macro World

While procrastinating, an old thought of mine about relativity (it's all subjective) and cause and effect, really about applying quantum theories like the uncertainty principle to behavioral or moral realms, popped into my head. Most of the time, we operate in a macro world (even if our gadgets operate in a micro world). If a person gets hit straight on by a bus, absent the success of medical intervention, the person is going to be struck, hurt, and perhaps killed; if we're driving the bus, we are going to hit, injure and perhaps kill the person. The bus is not going to pass through a person and leave him/her unscathed. Pretending not to perceive (or in fact not actually seeing) the crash does not heal the person. Whether or not we accurately can articulate objective reality does not mean the objective reality does not exist, even if it is an approximation/limit reached as opposing perceptions meet and vie.

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