at 02:20 am 12/23/2004 +0000, smileyjaiy wrote:

>i like thinking of the light spectrum analagy as well but for
>slightly
>different reasons....it is because our senses are limited in their
>range of capacity that we are able to have a world in which we can
>view, ie., our bodies instruments, the senses, determines the
>experiences that we consider tangible. if the senses were not limited
>to what they can or cannot perceive our world would become undefined,
>of which it is by nature, unlimited potential, aetheric. the senses
>are like a filter that brings into focus a potential that is defined
>by the filter of the sense. the observer is inseperable from the
>observed.
>the observer defines the observed.



intuitively (no scientific qualifications here) this is what i have
believed for a long time. you describe it so succinctly. thanks.

--carol