It's such a good point of yours, John, that the observation frames the observer.
When I look at you, my two eyes triangulate on your face. Two slightly different images are spliced together by the 3D modeling software of my mind.
When I regard myself, my modeling software simply inverts that process. Those same two slightly different images imply a locus of consciousness behind my eyes where, in reality, there is only brain meat. This is the essence of the ego.
And then there's another layer to this. Because I appear to myself to be riding around inside my own head, I project the same onto you. When I speak to you, I address myself to a similar imaginary point inside your skull, behind your eyes.
Subjectivity and objectivity create each other in a self-referential loop. Ying and yang indeed, my friend!
The irony is that it is both. The observation is as much the point of view of the observer as the observer is framed by the observation.
So more yin and yang, than God Almighty.
The coin has two sides, but we are taught to only see one, or the other.
It's such a good point of yours, John, that the observation frames the observer.
When I look at you, my two eyes triangulate on your face. Two slightly different images are spliced together by the 3D modeling software of my mind.
When I regard myself, my modeling software simply inverts that process. Those same two slightly different images imply a locus of consciousness behind my eyes where, in reality, there is only brain meat. This is the essence of the ego.
And then there's another layer to this. Because I appear to myself to be riding around inside my own head, I project the same onto you. When I speak to you, I address myself to a similar imaginary point inside your skull, behind your eyes.
Subjectivity and objectivity create each other in a self-referential loop. Ying and yang indeed, my friend!