Re: OT: reality (wasRe: Atlantean)

Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:

> In a message dated 2004:01:10 05:43:33 PM, axiem@FASTMAIL.FM writes:
>
> >Multiple people percieve the same object. In fact, one person will often
>
> >percieve the same object as other people.
>
>     Would you perceive a black phallic object the same way a Hindu would?
>
>     Dangerously loaded generalization _there_ that we all perceive things
> alike - one that Christophe might have something(s) to say about - being that
> he
> is quite scientific and has on a number of times pointed out how language
> itself creates a cultural bias becuz it creates a "cultural mindset" _and_
> many
> types of "individual mindsets"
I would almost certainly not perceive that linga-like thing the same as a
Hindu would.

But the notion that different people might possibly perceive the same object
differently presupposes the existence of objective reality - otherwise we
won't have any the same object, nor would the non-sameness of our perceptions
have any meaning.

                                                 Andreas