...that I am VERY color blind. I always had knowledge that I was, but this morning I realised the extent. The eye doctor asked if I could tell the difference between the red and green lights when driving, and I can, so became very confused, stating 'you shouldn't be able to'. When I was younger, I always used to wonder if my pink was someone else's green, and so on and so on, going through the spectrum. I got so far with this thought that even considered that, if I swapped vision with someone, would we both be driven mad by the alien world we suddenly saw before us. Language can only give a subjective description of what we see. I started to think about perception, and thought of this...
and then this...
The above image is by Diana Arbus, the much troubled street photographer. Perception in all forms is subjective, and sometimes you need an eye doctor to remind you of the fact. Where some see disability, other see beauty. Where some see beauty, other see munipulation. It all depends on your perception...and maybe your ethics. But i KNOW I can tell the difference between the red and green light...can't I?
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all we can know of reality is necessarily through perception, and thus everything becomes subjective. there is no such thing as objective truth, only varying degrees of intersubjectivity.
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