Tuesday, October 10, 2017

egos eking out an etch a sketch existence


“Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them, Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.” – Marianne Williamson

 

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare

 

i cannot experience truth without perception

because i am not divine

if i could i would likely lose my mind

my senses receive

but my mind accepts, reinterprets

or completely disregards

to keep what i perceive manageable

if i were to know the truth about

all that is around

about you

about me

i would be housed with those

who cannot handle

 

it is bad enough i studied neurophysiology

so when you tell me

your perception as an absolute

i don’t want to refute

i just want you to go away

let me be gray

amid your myriad of colors

 

like you i cannot know

i am not disposed to clarity

within my abilities

or lack thereof

 

but still i read

philosophical diatribes

about perception

as a protection

against the concrete molds you cast

to confine the causality of conundrums

 

the parts do no equal the sum

and the sum is not made up of its parts

until you confess we do not possess

unbiased probabilities

there is no foundation upon which

we can construct

further conversation

 

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