I agree we see/know/act from our own perspective. Yet, to a limited extent, we can adopt other perspectives [even if it is just us doing it, and yes it changes us to do so], and a kind of, to invent a term, I think, take a 2nd order perspective or somesuch [while still only being us doing it].Avatar wrote:Nah, only perspective matters all the time.
Exactly. To you though, they still appear different, regardless of whether it's because they are, or because you think they are. So you act as though they were different.Sometimes things are actually different depending on where/how you see them...sometime things are only different because you can't see where/how they really are at all.
Get a different perspective, and they might not be. But you will be.
--A
Like this: we, depending on mood, can experience time moving at a different rate. At the same time we know it didn't really move differently. We can see that it both really did and really didn't. Also, we can know that time here vs. time near a black whole materially pass at different rates...yet if we moved from one place to the other, we would experience time the same despite the physical difference between locations, and still maintain knowing they are different rates. We know from perspective, but can also know about perspective. We can know THAT some things are so, independent of our perspective, even if we are incapable of knowing exactly what all those independent things actually are. Some of those things we are capable of knowing because we can model/comprehend multiple other perspectives to an extent. This adaptability, complex shifting, fluidity is really where all the fun/interesting human stuff happens.