Examining the Appearance of Disappearance

With flickering will, the sense of volition comes to a standstill. This will on the verge of withdrawal from appearance resists entering the door to your absence. Once it is gone, your presence will be absent to this 'will' of yours and present to your absence. Absence and presence are unavailable to each other and invisible to each other's presence. The will that is flickering keeps the door open just in case there is a change in direction of its presence. Presence and absence cannot deny each other as the will keeps flickering. Volition is the ability to exercise this will. They are not the same but the former is a sensation of awareness, while the latter is the force that is governed. The door that is open to disappearance is a wonderland that escapes your understanding, for you know excessively and knowledge in excess closes the door. You can never enter the field of absence with your presence of mind. To be aware of your surroundings is one matter, but to be aware of what you may be unaware off indicates elucidation sans articulation.

A furnace is the awakening of your denial, a denial that you know. You cannot say that you do not know, for to be able to make sense of your awareness proves to you the tangible tendency to place a given object of awareness. It is at once heat and folly that makes you resist the absence of your sense of volition. Both volition and will lie outside the realms of Physics. The phenomenon of absence contradicts the presence which is Physics; for what is Physics- but the science of everything that is present. To acknowledge that there is a will that keeps flickering, marks the vulnerability of the physical space. The furnace is the melting point of awareness and the fuse is the position from which your will can persist in vain obstinacy to deny an absence that was once upon a time known. Is this not a fallacy my dear friend? For one who cannot enter the space that one is already in, cannot leave the space that one was never in. Yet, the sense of its fallacy is denied.

It seems like there is an object guiding the will from a source. This source is unreal and so is your drive. To think of it as a sustainable offence is to mark the end of an inquiry that led you to the door to absence in the first place. If the lamp is upstairs, would it not be the height of folly to not attribute the source of your presence to that flickering will? The unsteady determination of will gave rise to a physical space and you are in as the mobius strip of appearance and disappearance.

Physiological Perception and Psychological Perception

Perception as an idea cannot be restricted to the functions of biological mechanisms. It is important to tell the difference between 'impact on body' and 'impact on feeling'. Impact on body is sensory while impact on feeling is a sensation. Sensory perception is physiological, while a sensation is about living the moment, which is because of the impact. It is a psychological perception. Touching fire leads to physiological reflex while feeling the heat of an argument is psychological. Yet, the idea of perception distorts your understanding of perception on the whole as an actuality. By giving life to the experience, a sensation is experienced simultaneously. There are some sensory perceptions that overlap, making it difficult to discriminate between the moment of the body and the eclipse of its mechanism.

A mirage is an illusion, no doubt. Is it physiological or psychological? An optical illusion is hard to categorize in this regard. It could be due to both physiological and psychological mechanisms. These perceptions are common at large. They constitute shared reality. Illusions, overt and covert are shared. They are also part of the experience of shared reality. As a result, illusions are real in their own right. They just have a different semantic value from sensory perceptions that enable what "we" consider to be stability without deception. In both pragmatic and para-pragmatic realms illusions are experienced as realities. They have an impact on the body. Their impact on feeling is an entirely different matter. There is an appeal to reason and the cognitive awareness of it, challenges reason itself pointing to its limitations.

If your perception is unusual and others do not experience it, they may find you rather impossible to believe. It is said to be a subjective experience. Its reality cannot be denied purely because it is not shared by the rest of the population. At any rate, remote as it may seem, subjective perception cannot be denied. It may have some physiological or psychological basis. Factors alien to the external world do not justify dogmatic dismissals. From the depths of thought, you learn that Physics is never quite beyond metaphysics. The realization that shared reality has a boundary, throws you outside its confines. You then discover that both physiological and psychological perceptions have unique signatures.

Infinity-That's More Than Just a Metaphor

"Infinity" is not defined but understood as an abstract concept. The reason that it cannot be defined is because it is too subtle. You understand indefiniteness and you know what countless is. Can you define it? It would be a contradiction to try and measure it because it is by definition countless. But can it be defined? It can be defined because ‘definition’ is different from ‘measurement'. It is understood by your mind. However, it can be represented through a symbol. This symbol is what infinity stands for but that is not how it is processed in your mind. It has a subtle value beyond mathematical representation. In space try and discover infinity. You look around and you see that the universe is beyond your grasp. The moment you are overwhelmed by the complexity of the universe, you have discovered infinity. It is the realization of the incomprehensible that is infinity. 

The symbol of infinity has a definite structure. In that structure, there is no complexity. Follow the complexity in meaning and you will see that it is not circular. You are never in the same place. The structure however is limited in that you are rooted to the same place. The subtle value is not in the space occupied by the symbol but by the subtle notion that has gone into the notation. This notion lies beyond the notation.

It is worthwhile to note that a symbol may not be subtle. If it is a measured account of what it stands for, as an entity then it is not subtle. If a symbol represents a value that is subtle then it cannot be measured. It may interest you to know that it can function as a qualifier. It is beyond Mathematics but within the grasp of semantics. This is why meaning is realized. It is by no means arrived at by working out mere symbols. A real metaphor is discovery of the abstract concept. The moment you realize this concept, it ceases to be a metaphor.

That is why infinity is more than just a metaphor.

The Optical Illusion of Common Sense

Common sense sounds like a sensibility that is common to a species such as human beings. An outlook that arises out of common sense is very often supported by specious arguments. This appears to be a contradiction; or does it? It would not be a contradiction if the outlook is based on certain principles, perceptions and biological mechanisms that can turn out to be limitations. Physics is instrumental in revealing the optical illusion of what we consider to be common sense. It is made to look like a misnomer. The Greek philosopher Plato is noted for his allegory of the cave. By way of the allegory, he shows how people get deceived by what they see. They mistake appearance for reality without knowing, poor chums, the sweet and bitter deceptions that ensue once the curtains subside. When they see what happens behind the curtains, they are in for a treat. Some become disillusioned with their senses and wish to pursue physics and even philosophy. 

The converse is also true. If you come to study sensory inputs threadbare and you start doubting the reality of what you see, you are sometimes scared that you may be mistaking a snake for a rope, when what you are seeing is nothing but a harmless rope.  You do not trust your senses at all to a point where it is dangerous. It is also true that a perspective that takes years to prove can be realized very easily, by common sense. Is common sense a particular faculty in our brain or is it just a simple way of thinking which we overlook? 

Some prefer the simple to the far-fetched. Supposing in a restaurant, there are many novel types of soups in the menu. Your friend tells you that he is going to opt for tomato soup. You remark, “What...despite so many options!” He responds, “I prefer the simple to the far-fetched”. This applies not only to choices and preferences but also to thought and intuitions. Sometimes there is truth in what meets the eye. It is not the figment of our imagination but that of skepticism that keeps us from making progress in all our endeavors.  Common sense is a shared way of perceiving the world and understanding the sensory inputs that we receive. It eludes us because of what we have learnt and the subjective reasoning that we have grown accustomed to practicing as a matter of habit. 

The world exists outside the clinic! The universe cannot be captured by a microscopic outlook.