[fifteendogs]

Let's try a simplistic example. Spme people are standing around a tree in the forest. The tree falls to the ground. One is to the south, one to the north, one to the east an one to the west. The one to the east reports that the tree fell to his(or hers) right. The one reporting to the west reports that the tree fell to his (or hers, god how i hate pc) left. The one to the south reports that the tree fell away from them. The one to the north reports that the tree fell towards them. Please write the history of this event.

[tortoise]

Please write the history of this event.

The example is irrelevant. You could have two people standing next to each other when the tree falls and you would still end up with different histories; about the only thing they would agree upon is perhaps that a tree fell in the abstract. Without a perfectly synchronous experiential context up until that point, there is no perfect understanding of each others experience of the event. Another persons perception of an event may not be the same as my perception of an event if I experienced it myself. I cannot trust that another persons perception will accurately convey the actual event because the context of interpretation may not have an equivalent mapping in my brain.