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Maps: A Symbolic Representation – Mental Overlay On Reality
by Tom Bunzel
One of the more dramatic ways to see the effect of the mind upon our perception of reality is with our knowledge and understanding of the earth itself. Now after our trips into space, viewed from space we have a familiar image of Earth’s topography.
But the human mind does not stop there; to understand reality “better” we have divided the globe into lines of latitude and longitude, enabling us to better navigate its surface.
But of course actual “lines” of latitude and longitude do not exist in “reality” –just in our mental overlay onto the reality of what exists within our perception of nature.
Similarly the “borders” that we have superimposed onto the planet to divide us into nations and states do not actually exist; in fact recently it was discovered that some villagers in Asia seemed to believe that they were sometimes in India, and at other times in Pakistan –but of course they have never moved.
More significantly NONE of the representations of the world above bear any real relationship to its reality because the surface of the earth is CURVED – it is a sphere.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/06/maps-a-symbolic-representation-mental-overlay-on-reality/
