image DAY 232 PHILOSOPHY OF ART

Perception and Reality

DABBLING IN THE WEIRD STUFF

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

Albert Einstein

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Have you ever wondered whether everyone sees colors the same way? What if the color you call red, someone else calls blue? Whenever she looks at the sky, she sees what you call red, but she has always been taught that the color she sees in the sky is called “blue,” so that is the name she gives it. There is no way to prove that such inconsistencies don’t exist, because we only have ...

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