Punching My Constructed People

Ought I to punch, in the face, someone in my perceived reality?

Umm... No; probably not. Firstly, I think it is important to remember that lack of evidence for reality being external does not mean that reality isn't external. In this same way, lack of evidence for reality being internal does not mean that reality is not, in fact, internal. I think depending which view we take, we need to recognize that maybe we are horribly wrong. In fact, before we make that choice we may want to consider to possible consequences of being right or wrong about either view.

If you agree that reality is external, punching someone in the face may very well land you in a prison that is real and external to you. So, this view would mean that you wouldn't want to punch someone in the face unless you particularly wanted to risk going to prison.

If you agree that reality is internal, the result of punching someone in the face will depend on how well you can force your mind to believe something and impose it upon your reality. If you punch someone in the face chances are that your mind, in my mind's experience, will not have the strength to keep you out of prison; the people whom you construct will throw you in a prison that you constructed/conceived of on your own. Of course, there isn't really any way of knowing if you'll succeed, unless you have experienced failure in doing so before this point in "time."

My advice: don't punch people in the face.

Individual vs Consensus; Perception vs Reality

Question 2: Do we construct reality? If not, does our understand of reality reflect reality as it is?

In most senses, I do not think that we construct reality. I think that we do in some ways, we do construct our own reality. We often alter events and happenings of our lives to be something different. We mentally construct things to be in our individual perception of reality when those things are not there in the consensus reality, and we mental deconstruct things to be not in our individual perception of reality when those things are there in the consensus reality. Of course, that it not say the the consensus reality could not consist of many mentally constructed things. As I mentioned in a previous post, I think rather than construct our reality, we tend to bastardize it; we impose upon it our limitations and our personal perceptions. Perhaps the moon is truly of a second spatial dimensional nature, and all of humanity imposes upon it their limitation of third spatial dimension understanding.

I suppose this is what I think:

Individual thoughts match individual perceptions which may or may not match consensus perception which may or may not match reality, if such a thing exists. I suppose that for reasons of pragmatism, we ought to assume that consensus perceptions generally match reality, or at least work towards matching reality. I think it still important to not neglect the fact that we have intense limitation, and that we should work to lessen those limitations.

What do you think?

Seventh Spatial Dimensional Monsters

Question 1: Can we conceive of/construct any spatial dimension other than our own?

I do not think it is possible to conceive of or construct any spatial dimension but our own. Humans like to fantasize that they can truly conceive of the first and second spatial dimensions. I think that we bastardize the first and second spatial dimensions to fit into our understand of the third dimension. For instance, when attempting to express even the first spatial dimension, we represent it as a dot. Even a dot, however has a sort of length, width, and depth. We cannot fully imagine what a first spatial dimension would look like. It is for the same reason that I think we could not fully imagine a second spatial dimension. We are severely limited to perceiving things in our third spatial dimensional worldview. Presumably, if the third spatial dimension does indeed exist, it would have the foundations of  first and second spatial dimensions. This leads me to wonder a few things.

The first of which is the following: do we actually understand the third spatial dimension? I would say yes; I think that we have only an understanding of the third spatial dimension, as seen by the fact that we impose third spatial dimensionality upon our universe-view. This is not to say that this universe is not a third spatial dimension universe, it is only to say that this universe may have lesser dimensions and higher dimensions upon which we impose or our third spatial dimension understanding.

The second of which is do alternate spatial dimensional beings exist? If so, could we conceive of them? I think that it is possible that alternate spatial dimensional beings exist (first, second, fourth, two hundredth, etc) without our knowledge. I think that because we cannot experience anything different from our spatial dimension, we would be unable to conceive of or process the existence of such beings; horribly nasty seventh spatial dimensional monsters could exist around us without our knowledge.

I have other questions, but that would make for a crazy long(er than this) blog post. So, what do any of you think?