[MD] Reet and the Weakest Link

[Ron Kulp]

{Ron]
> the truth is only known to you.
> It's about developing that within yourself
> not a concrete definition that is
> universally agreed upon.

Platt:
But as you know, Buddhists and others here and elsewhere claim 
the "self" is just an illusion. I guess this means anything you-the- 
illusion believe to be true is also just an illusion. Makes one wonder
how 
we manage to get through the day -- but since "we" and "days" are 
illusions, too, we can only conclude that reality is but a dream. But, 
somehow I think it would be hard to convince a survivor of a suicide
bomber 
that her experience was just a figment of her imagination.    

Ron:
an illusion is a perception not a hallucination.

Typically when we use the term illusion often we conceptualize it as a 

hallucination. Something that does not exist. This is not so.

 

wikipedia defines ; The term illusion refers to a specific form of
sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination> , which is a distortion in
the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of
a true sensation. For example, hearing voices regardless of the
environment would be a hallucination, whereas hearing voices in the
sound of running water (or other auditory source) would be an illusion.

 

The human brain constructs a world inside our head based on what it
samples from the surrounding environment. However sometimes it tries to
organise this information it thinks best while other times it fills in
the gaps. This way in which our brain works is the basis of an illusion.

 

When we say objective reality is an illusion we are not saying that
stimuli does not exist, we are saying that stimuli perceived as 

Things in themselves are a sensory distortion.

 Illusions exploit the assumptions about the physical world.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  
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