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11-07-2005, 01:14 PM
Maybe truth is much simpler and more obvious to us all than philosophers and politicians and priests pretend. Opposite views are normal and natural in this world, so maybe oppositions and dualities are the key to understanding understanding. Recursively.
If I hold up my hand and declare; the thumb is on the left, it is possible that everyone else will see the thumb is evidently on the right. So we learn to keep quiet or even delude ourselve as to what we do experience.
Maybe Truth has to be beyond any single viewpoint or theory.
Maybe every viewpoints is incomplete.
Maybe all viewpoints are different.
Maybe every viewpoint has an opposite and equally true viewpoint.
Just as our two eyes each see a flat 2D image and the brain constructs depth from that to fit our experiences of touch and sound, in fact each eye is a contradiction in the details of the other, the sense of touch often contradicts the appearances, and so on. Intelligence is, it seems, the curving flowing reconciliation of paradox into theory.
Bezier for Pope!
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