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Language Creates the Illusion of Reality. Here’s How
In just three minutes, philosopher Alfred Korzybski will completely change the way you think about language, the mind and reality itself
In the video embedded above, philosopher and mathematician Alfred Korzybski explains how reality as we know it is not an illusion, but an abstraction of the mind. His explanation is quite literally mind blowing.
Korzybski explains that reality works the way a fan does. When a fan is stationary, its blades all appear individual and separate. However, when the fan begins to rotate, the individual blades now appear as a rotating disc. The disc is not an illusion, says Korzybski, but an image abstracted by the senses. In other words, the mind fills in the blanks.
When we look at an apple, says Korzybski, we do not see the particles and processes that produce the object. Like the individual fan blades that appear to become a disc, we see instead a solid red piece of fruit that we agree looks like something we call an apple. We create the apple–in Korzybski’s words, the apple is “man made.”
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/08/language-creates-illusion-of-reality.html
