{"id":2389,"date":"2019-11-11T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T10:07:39","slug":"do-you-see-things-as-they-are-or-as-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/do-you-see-things-as-they-are-or-as-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you see things as they are, or as You are?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1776\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1776\" class=\"wp-image-1776 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/virtual-reality-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"virtual reality simulation\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/virtual-reality-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/virtual-reality.jpg 606w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1776\" class=\"wp-image-1776 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/virtual-reality-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"virtual reality simulation\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/virtual-reality-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/drdavidhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/virtual-reality.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/noscript><p id=\"caption-attachment-1776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image: iStock Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Look at grass. We say it is green. But it\u2019s not inherently green. It\u2019s green for us because we have 3 photoreceptors in our eyes that are sensitive to specific wavelengths of light. If we had different photoreceptors, grass would appear different. Grass is beige to a dog because a dog has 2 photoreceptors. Green doesn\u2019t exist for a dog.<\/p>\n<p>Is grass green, then, or beige? It\u2019s neither. It is what it is \u2026 for you!<\/p>\n<p>What about the solid world around you? If you look inside the atoms that compose everything, they are mostly empty space. So why don\u2019t we fall through the ground we\u2019re standing on?<\/p>\n<p>Your weight presses against the floor and pushes the trillions of atoms in the floor against each other. The electrical forces in the atoms repel and push back. We feel the push as something solid but the push is electrical, not physical.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same for you as you stand on the floor. It pushes your atoms into each other, so they electrically push back. Energy on energy!<\/p>\n<p>You might really think of it as one field of energy (human) pushing against another field of energy (the floor). Energy interacting with energy. It\u2019s the same when we interact with each other &#8211; energy interacting with energy.<\/p>\n<p>The perception of things being solid (including ourselves) is due to the interaction of energy fields. The form and colours are produced by our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The form, appearance, and feeling of \u2018reality\u2019 for us, then, is related to our perceptive abilities. Perhaps our deep consciousness (subconscious) interprets and shows us what we expect to see. I wonder if the world that babies see is less tangible than ours, and only becomes more \u2018solid\u2019 as they learn to accept our assumptions. As we grow up, \u2018reality\u2019 becomes more or less consistent for us.<\/p>\n<p>If we had enough computing power, we could generate the same effect in virtual reality simulators, electrically stimulating the brain when a visual representation of a hand touches a visual representation of an object. It\u2019s the basis of the films, \u2018The Matrix\u2019 and \u2018Ready Player One\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So do we perceive the \u2018truth\u2019 of reality? I don\u2019t believe so. Perhaps a version. We don\u2019t perceive things as they are, but according to who we are.&#x1f913;&#x1f914;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at grass. We say it is green. But it\u2019s not inherently green. It\u2019s green for us because we have 3 photoreceptors in our eyes that are sensitive to specific wavelengths of light. If we had different photoreceptors, grass would appear different. Grass is beige to a dog because a dog has 2 photoreceptors. 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