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Monday, 17 September 2018
You can accept that your perception of the world is framed by hidden assumptions, and that this is true even beyond what you can accept in the normal way of openness. There are ways that you can experience this and narratives that illustrate the eye-opening, or 'mind-expanding' effects of the discovery of hidden assumptions. This expansion of perspective is perhaps the typical message of anti-romantic novels. In this sense it becomes not too far fetched to say hyperbolically that the world seen is the mirror of the seer. It is much more difficult to take on the idea that your perception of yourself is also bounded and framed by hidden assumptions. This partly because you have no perception of yourself at all, such as it is it is a virtual and reflex process, a latent inference. The ideas that structure this virtuality are subtle and highly volatile, they operate in a realm where thinking is very fast, too fast for easy translation into distinct thoughts. The idea that the world seen is a perfect reflection of the seer is useful in this context. If you take this idea on and see how complete you can make it, you might be rewarded by some inkling of a shift of ground in the system of automatic reflex thoughts that stabilise the working function of your 'self', or rather of 'your' self.
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