Your
Individuality is far more than a little peculiarity. It is a view that nothing
and nobody has except you. Otherwise it/he/she would be you. Also, you will have changed your perspective –
yourself – in the next moment, and you cannot turn back time.
For
convenience we come to an agreement about "common" objects, which allegedly
everyone perceives, although each views from his own standpoint. If you watch
me rolling a pen across the table, you may believe it being the same pen I see.
However, I see something completely
different than you. There is not the slightest match between my perception and
yours. Because otherwise I would sit in your place, have your thoughts,
memories, and emotions, connecting them with a shape rolling towards me.
If we can both
talk about a single pen, it’s because we already as children have agreed about
what we want to consider approximately
as a common object and more specifically as a pen. We also did this early for
ourselves by changing our own perspective and recognizing the relative
stability of certain shapes. Should you now realize that "someone" is
rolling such an approximated object across the table you have changed the view
again: You have put yourself approximately in his perspective and have returned to your own. So you can conclude that a common object is rolling
there, "only" seen from different sides. Actually, you have merged two indivisible perceptions over several
steps into a unity, which emphasizes
a "part" of your own perception (pen) as well as a "part"
of the perception of the other person you just "spied on" (pen).
The unique
perspectives thus create an approximated
commonality by mutual exchange, a so-called real pen.
The
widespread assumption of a pen independent
of perspectives, conversely, leads into the void if you keep asking "what" it consists
of: molecules, these of atoms, these of elementary particles, these of fields,
and these of laws of change. But change of
what? It is an endless loop.
However, no concept yet can explain why a rolling
pencil can be quite stable: It neither breaks nor does it change direction if I
only think so. I have to touch it. And then it changes for both of us (on
condition that we both look "there").
In the
Perspective Exchange Concept, we therefore have to start from still largely unknown
processes stabilizing our perception. Their
effect must be in accordance with proven physical laws. Both conclusions are
consistent.
The concept
of an independent reality, on the other hand, is a crutch for projecting stability into things not
really understood, thus largely concealing
individual perceptions. This is not consistent.
This text is an excerpt from the book
Alternating Consciousness. From Perception to Infinities and Back to Free Will
Alternating Consciousness. From Perception to Infinities and Back to Free Will
