[MD] Reet and the Weakest Link

[Platt Holden]

> > {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.
> 
> Merriam-Webster:
> 
> 2 a (1): a misleading image presented to the vision (2): something that 
> deceives or misleads intellectually b (1): perception of something 
> objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its 
> actual nature (2)
> 
> [Ron]
> > 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.  
> 
> [Platt]
> Who or what sees the world the brain constructs? 
> 
> Ron:
> 
> Intellectual, social, organic and inorganic patterns of quality.
> 
> what else?

What do you call the combination? A person? An individual? Ron? Lila?