These are the first words of a long journey ahead… As we see and observe the world go by…
As a start, I shall present an alternative perspective of looking at the world that occurred to me earlier on in life.
When I was still a kid, strange ideas visited me frequently. One of which was… everyone else in this world is not real except yourself. A pretty scary thought… You are here all alone, going thru life like a game character trying to get to the final stage… each “stage” that follows becomes increasingly difficult to get pass… from a baby who gets almost whatever u want, to the adult who has a family to feed.
As I was having such thoughts, other ideas came into my mind… if others are real, is what they are seeing akin to what i am seeing? If I see grass as green, do you see grass as green as well? What if you are seeing grass as “blue” right from birth and is told by your parents that the colour of the grass is “green”, and you learnt that colour as “green”? It would then be possible that everyone sees a different palette of colours and a different mix? Well… That could explain why some people have weird fashion sense and colour tastes…
Most of us see objects and things as they are… with the assumption that there is a real world out there… But in perceiving the world, we often disregard the fact that we are 100% of the time making use of our 5 senses…
What we make of this world therefore, is determined by what our mind interprets of what the senses sense. Could our minds be inaccurate? or fooling us? Making each of us believe that object XYZ is actually a car? or Sound that are actually non-existent is made up by our minds to fool us into believing that we are living in a real world? Making homosapiens belief that there is an objective reality?
For all we know, this very chair that we are sitting on, or the floor that we are standing on are all fragments of creation of another being(s) higher intelligent.
As computer games portray the player in a situation akin to the world we live in, we may be living in someone’s game at this very moment.
The question is… Are you the human player? or are you acting as the A.I. or N.P.C?
Leonard Cai