Sunday, November 09, 2008
Thought about colours yesterday.
I remembered how charmaine once said that she'd take that blue pill if she were in the matrix, and i said that that wasn't very moral, and then she said we could still be very moral in a matrix illusion. Thinking back, is physical truth very important? I know moral truth certainly is - how humans should behave towards each other and stuff - but is the truth about your physical surroundings important? I mean, if it is, then why doesn't the Bible spam us with scientific knowledge already?
Then I thought, would you say colours are an illusion? Cause colours are not a primary property of objects themselves, but rather, the effect of light bouncing off objects into our retinas. Since they're not actual properties of these objects, would you say that we're living in a mild, matrix-like delusion? Would it be more moral then to not be able to see anything?
And then I thought, what would our physical surroundings be like, if we take colours out of the equation? What does it mean to be totally unable to see anything? If black/white/ transparent comes to mind, they would still be considered colours right? We probably can never imagine true colourlessness. Then I thought, the concept of colours is so integral in the human perception that we can never grasp the concept of true colourlessness/sightlessness?
Forgive me, I am obviously bored.