Tuesday, 6 November 2007

OBJECTS AND SENSE-DATA

The true nature of a physical object is partly different from the associated sense-data that we receive from it as impressions, but also our understanding of the object in question can be said to be partly the same as our impressions of it also, and this is because our sense-data depends on our perspective in relation to the object, and also in the relative amount of the total composition of the object that our senses can make out at any given point in time, and also by the amount of impressions we receive and undertstand about the object as sense-data. It takes a lot of rigour, and extensive comprehension to undertsand objects fully, For instance, how many people know the true composition, and nature of the following objects in their entirety; televisions, compact disc players, aeroplanes, or the biology of an elephant. To know, and understand any object completely would require knowing it from every conceivable angle both outwardly, and inwardly, and also in regard to its situation, and purpose amongst processes generally. Also how much does the average person know about the molecular, and elemental make-up of a lot of the objects they come across on a daily basis, and do they understand its purpose, and situation amongst processes, because nearly everything that occurs in nature, and also the things that are made by humans has a purpose. Philosophers for a long time now have debated on how much we can actually know with our senses, and they have attempted to understand, and have also inquired into whether there might be aspects of reality as well as objects which may possibly be beyond our understanding, and knowledge. The vibration, and activities in energy, or matter as well as the forces, rules, and laws in nature will continue to have a mystery for a long time to come and are the main reason why we cannot know and understand any objects in nature fully, and the processes involved in them, but hopefully knowledge will bridge the gap as much as possible even if it is not in an absolute, or complete sense. If you know everything that an object is, and everything that an object is not as well as understand its causes in the sense of how it came about, and also how it is part of a process then you can know the object as a totality. Only particular, and isolated objects can be known in their totality and can be understood almost fully whereas how objects relate to their surroundings becomes more complex if long chains of causes are sought after in the relation between objects and their surroundings, and also other objects. To try to understand objects, or things as part of a continuum of processes, and to try to understand these processes also and how they operate as knowledge is more difficult to ascertain than trying to understand objects in an isolated sense. Human beings do not have innate ideas, or ideas of the truth from an inner place within us at birth, but get our ideas of the truth from the sense-impressions we receive by the use of our senses, we do have information in our DNA in the form of instincts, logic, intuition, progressive rationality, will-power, etc. which helps us process sense-data through the faculty of understanding which then become knowledge in our minds. The most difficult thing to figure out in matter, or objects is the perpetual, and ceaseless vibration that exists in energy and how its activities produce forces, and forms as well as laws, and rules, and so these are important things to think about in an attempt to understand matter, and objects.

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