Guest guest Posted November 13, 2001 Report Share Posted November 13, 2001 Dear all, there is this well-known allegory, illustrating the illusory nature of our perception of this world: looking at a fish in an aquarium, the shape we are seeing when facing that fish is completely different from the one we are seeing when watching it from the side. In the same way, life and death, pleasure and pain, and all of the other pairs of opposites, are said to be partial views of one eternal existence. The wave-particle dualism of modern physics seems to be of that same nature. There seems to be one underlying phenomenon (only one fish!) that physicists are as yet unable to completely understand in a holistic way. You may enjoy, as I did, re-reading Plato's Allegory of the Cave, a wonderfully simple yet expressive illustration of these ideas. A reliable source can be found at http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/republic29.htm Love, Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2001 Report Share Posted November 13, 2001 Dear Mike, That is so timely this post, I was about to include the same allegory in my post. Thank you so much for taking the time... it is indeed more than an allegory... I am the same fish as you are... but in time and space we act as though different...and people see us as though different... and we see people as though different from us... and we stimulate and enjoy that play as joyful reality... Oh how I love this life... It beats being "one indifferentiated God" :-) Love you Michael, Wim. >there is this well-known allegory, illustrating the illusory nature of our >perception of this world: looking at a fish in an aquarium, the shape we >are >seeing when facing that fish is completely different from the one we are >seeing when watching it from the side. In the same way, life and death, >pleasure and pain, and all of the other pairs of opposites, are said to be >partial views of one eternal existence. > >The wave-particle dualism of modern physics seems to be of that same >nature. >There seems to be one underlying phenomenon (only one fish!) that >physicists >are as yet unable to completely understand in a holistic way. > >You may enjoy, as I did, re-reading Plato's Allegory of the Cave, a >wonderfully simple yet expressive illustration of these ideas. A reliable >source can be found at >http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/republic29.htm > >Love, > >Michael _______________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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