Perception is something that's always intrigued me. Just the thought that everybody sees, feels, tastes differently than you is enough to confuse somebody. What's interesting though is that no matter how many different ways people can perceive things, there is only one truth. THE truth. Schrodinger said that if something could be in two different states, but that state is unknown, it can be assumed that it is in both states. That is something that many people find interesting, however, we all know that an object can't be in two states at once. The cat in the box wasn't both dead and alive. Just because we didn't know if it was alive or not doesn't change the fact that it was one or the other. I once heard somebody try and explain the concept of "my truth". They said to imagine two people looking at a number on the ground from opposite sides. One person says it's a 6, while the other says it's a 9. In that situation, it could be argued that both are correct. The problem is that there is somebody drew that number there. If we ask the person who drew it what it was, or looked for outside context for that number, we'll know that one person is wrong. Everyone percieves the world around them differently, yet we all somehow come to the same conclusions on sounds, colors, etc..
Our perception of time is even more interesting. Humans are the only creature to pay attention to time. No other creature worries about waking up at the same time each day. They don't have deadlines to meet. This is one advantage that animals have over humans. They don't think back on their lives and fill themselves with regrets. They don't look at all the days they have to go through to get to Friday. In many ways, the perception of time is a curse. We base our lives around it. As kids we can't wait to grow up, and as adults we wish we could go back to being a kid. Why is it that boring workdays last forever, but vacations are gone in no time? Once we stop caring about time and begin to relax, we're immediately thrown back into the machine. Back to the clock.
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