I wonder how philosophy affects us in reality. Does it act like a prism through which we start to see the world around us? I was walking aimlessly after lunch today, when all of a sudden an idea struck me. As always, it was basically a one liner : Knowledge and a perfect black body. You absorb and abosrb, until you are so full of it that you start emitting. Now this is no fancy idea, people talk like this all the time. But my simple question is, Why?
Does a mathematician see a display of numbers in almost everything he sees? Does a gardener see sprouting of seeds when he sees children making merry of ignorance? How does a professional assassin view this world? How does a businessman make sense of everything? You think on these lines and you arrive at an obvious statement. Everyone sees the same thing from his perspective. But what do I mean by 'same'? At what level of understanding does a physical phenomenon cease to be universal?
For example, a ball bouncing on a surface is a universal truth. A physicist sees transfer of momentum, a poet imagines the pain that both the ball and the surface exert on one another, a gardener sees his soil being wasted, a child sees dirt on the ball. So there is truth, but at which level does it become a perspective? My training is forcing me to 'believe' that the physical picture is 'the' real picture. But it isn't certainly so. I am probably going no where with this post, but I hope I'm able to make the point that specialising in one thing can lead us far away from universality. With time we just become more and more cornered into our own spaces and cease to realize the full potential of our intelligence. But is there a way out of it?
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