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Old 04-16-2018, 07:34 AM
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JeffreyAK
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We can't really separate objective reality from our interpretation of it, since that's going on in our brains. Blue, for example, is a mental construct, the way we interpret light wavelengths around about 475 nm when that light is picked up on our retinas. Lots of people can't tell the difference between blue and green, so their conscious reality is different from other people's. And the sky would look dramatically different if our eyes were sensitive to ultraviolet or infra-red light. On a grander scale, space itself is deformed by mass in ways we can calculate but can't really comprehend, but our conscious reality is Euclidean 3-space. Even the mathematics we use to describe reality affects and limits our perception of it, since math is continuous but reality appears to be discrete or quantized. Complicated stuff.
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