And when you press your hands together, nothing really touches. It is only the force of the atoms repelling each other that our brain interprets as “touching”. And for all practical purposes, they ARE touching, except they’re not.
Same goes for light, color, gravity, etc. When it is all you’ve known since your mother’s womb, you learn to interpret everything in a way that is productive.
It is said that what you see is actually upside down at the back of your eyeball, but your brain has learned to upright the image with its software. Well, there was a guy that walked around for months with a special viewer that caused him to see everything upside down. Guess what? After a month or two, his software was modified and he saw everything as upright.
And when he removed the glasses for the first time, everything “looked” upside down.
i.e. the book is stating the obvious.
All this goes to prove that the feminists are right, that no one woman is more beautiful than another. It is mere lookism. Hillary looks as desirable as Cindy Crawford. That a person can safely step in front of a bullet and it is only imagination that he is dead. Nothing is real, including that pot of gold. Everything is mental constructs.
The "reprogramming" of his vision happened in a matter of days after donning the glasses. It should be noted that the glasses not only swapped up and down, they also reversed left & right. After the first transition he demonstrated proficiency by playing pool and riding a motorcycle among other feats.
The removal of his prismatic glasses caused him serious problems with headaches, disorientation, and vertigo which lasted much longer than the first transition into the "upside down worldview";, although he eventually did return to "right side up", which is in fact upside down on your retina.
The moral of the story?
"It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature!"
Regards,
GtG
Not just our senses, but every physical construct short of neutron star density. What we experience is the Pauli exclusion principle, roughly (but incorrectly) stated as no two electrons may occupy the same state. It's not the atoms repelling, it's electrons preventing atoms from merging.
Read a book one time, it may have been "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat", that asked does the universe exist if there is no one to observe it. Sentient beings may, by observing, collapse the probabilities, and instantiate the Universe.