There is One Reality but it is "Perspective Dependent"

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    It's been a while since I posted anything from Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett. This short video reinforces that "there is one really" but she provides an interesting perspective on whether we really experience it "objectively." It's a "perspective dependent" experience of one reality.

    To me, this gets at "all sensations are true" in that they have there source in a physical reality but our minds are the filter through which we experience and make sense of that reality. Her "for dogs, red isn't real" is a new perspective. The one comment from a father of a daughter who is "color blind" but only in one eye also sheds new light on how we experience reality.

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    The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset develops his perspectivist view, at least implicitly (been too long since I read him), from the existentialist dictum “existence precedes essence” – i.e., we can only posit some “essence” of things (if we are so inclined) from the perspective and influence of our existential circumstances. (Which, to me, means that such an existential perspective depends on αἰσθήσεις and πᾰ́θη – and our interpretation of such, from that perspective.)

    Saying that “I” cannot be detached from my existential circumstances, Ortega offered a simple formulation: “Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia.”

    "We must try to make the end of the journey better than the beginning, as long as we are journeying; but when we come to the end, we must be happy and content." (Vatican Saying 48)

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