there is really no sky

"Experience has the knack of fooling us on a regular basis. We see the sun setting every day, but we know very well the sun never sets. It is the earth rotating backwards, which gives us the experience that the sun is setting in the horizon. The sky looks blue, but we know that there is really no sky and neither is it blue. There are many such examples where our experiences are false. The same is also true of how we visually perceive the world. Science has taught us that the light is reflected from any object in this universe that we observe, and travels to the retina in our eye. There are 120 millions rods which are sensitive to black and white and there are about 7 millions cones which are sensitive to color. These rod and cones convert the incoming light into an optical signal. This optical signal is transmitted to the visual cortex in the human brain. This is the end of the journey of the perception process. There is no explanation as to what happens to the optical signal and how the brain decodes the optical signal and reconstructs our visual world. Science also never tells who is at home within the brain who finally sees the reconstructed visual image. Who is final observer of this image? I guess this idea of the final observer has always been outside the bounds of science because there is no way to empirically record the observer’s existence. Anything “subjective” is discarded in the scientific world." 

This well presented observation goes to the heart of our deluded sense of the world. But the idea that we encounter the world as individual objects experiencing phenomena that are obviously not occurring is embedded in our everyday language and thoughts, through common speech acts, through educational discourse, through legal procedure and scientific and philosophical enquiry. All literary text manifests the same and amounts to the expression of a state of ignorance, from popular fictions to the so-called great works. Where do we ever encounter a scene in which a protagonist is truly seeing the world the way it is? And is it ever possible to write such a description?

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