Squaring of the circle.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Squaring of the circle.

Something suddenly made sense to me.. a profound insight,I guess you may say. In the same way people believe the whole can't exceed the sum of its parts(and this was a mistake because whole=a single part/a collection of all parts), I understand that a circle is an illusion as much as a square is. They have mutual value,but are simply viewed from different perspectives.

How is this so,you ask?


















Well,think of a circle in real life like it is taken in a picture. From a distance,it appears to be round,correct? But when you zoom in on it, you notice that it is constructed from a mass of pixels. This doesn't change the fact that at a distance it still appears to be a circle, but the fact that it is a circle at a distance doesn't change the fact that it is a mass of square pixels once you zoom in. Humans have a tendency to smooth things out from a distance,erroneously, but it helps differentiate in a way.. Because without smoothing out something,we couldn't divert our focus from the individual parts. It explains why, "When you tear something apart,it loses its meaning" makes sense. Still,meaning is the only thing that can.. well.. matter! That's why even if the meaning we have is factually incorrect, it still has value. Most people don't have the capacity to analyze things to the extent that they see them for what they truly are.. a collection of many individual parts that have different meanings when isolated.. But our different unique capacities allow us to form different opinions simply because they produce different degrees of perception.. and that doesn't change the way our purest products of perception are as real of facts as we could ever know! So comes to exist difference. Perception of difference = degree of space,and so comes to exist the perception of time and change.

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