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An Aspect of Light |
Learning a science - like I am now, really get you into some strange modes of thought - that I know must sound very alien. Some time hence, I found out that lies are truths. Not in the social definition of the word, of course; All I meant was that a lie is an entity in it self, and is in a sense a true representation of it self. Nothing can be more like the lie than the lie it self. Also from a social- psychology standpoint, lies are very important, because they reveal something that is important to a person. This is because, since lying is not socially accepted, a person incurs a risk by lying; and so for lying to be a rational choice the benefit of lying must be seen to outweigh the consequences of telling the truth.
As I go deeper into the nature of lies and truths, the arguments resemble reality less and less, and in the end they are so abstracted from reality, that they may have stopped being a reflection of what is real.
I wrote a paper once in philosophy, where - if I had continued to use the metaphor of "the lie", I would have accused the tree and the prism of only telling different versions of the story of light and not telling the whole truth.
Although these views may seem strange, I think they have a lot to tell us about art and everyday life. First of all that when someone lies, you should not judge them for lying, but in each case assess what their purpose for hiding the true facts are - and also your relation to that person. And secondly, that when they light glints of the apex of my neighbors roof, what I see is only one version of that light, and that I can now move on to other discoveries of this phenomenon, such as the blueness of light in the winter sky north of the polar circle.
I've gained many strange perspectives through my studies. I think most of them come from recognizing that there is some thing general to be learned from something specific; because it is in this realisation that you see the interconnectedness of the world, and it is through a vision of this interconnectedness you observe the niches where no connections yet are made. History often teaches us that strange views may sometimes be new views. And so I hope to fill my world with discovery and learning.