While I’ve
been talking about how much reality is created by our mind (or consciousness) I came across this concept (as expressed in one of
the dozens of movies I watch all day long) that states that we all believe that we
observe reality, things as they are, but what actually happens is that the mind
interprets what the eyes see and gives it meaning; it’s only at this point,
when meaning is assigned, that we can truly say we have seen something. In
other words, what we see is as much in the mind as it is in reality. If you
consider that the mind of a person from one culture is going to be different in
many ways from the mind of a person from another culture, then you have the
explanation for that most fundamental of all cross-cultural problems: the fact
that two people look upon the same reality, the same example of behavior, and
see two entirely different things.
Any
behavior observed across the cultural divide, therefore, has to be interpreted
in two ways:
·
the
meaning given to it by the person who does the action
·
the
meaning given to it by the person who observes the action
Only when
these two meanings are the same do we have successful communication, successful
in the sense that the meaning that was intended by the doer is the one that was
understood by the observer. This idea makes me think very much to the losers
who made my assessments, what the heck did they see (or understand) about me and my way to think and
being logic?
They surely
have seen someone else…….there must exist some logical reason to explain what
they saw in me……….can’t tell if it’s my convinced belief in at least try once
the therapy that I’m tired to name or if it truly works for TBI or because they didn’t want me
to turn into a bum, living on the street.
These bums
must have a pretty high social cost, because I don’t see any in court
when I’m there, in fact the only people I see are those with lots of money –
like young kids with very large amounts of money either from inheritance or as
a payoff from some accident they had – practically not only physically (only) disabled people like me but
derelict young kids who have no idea of what to do with all of their money.
Talk about
having a great job as a conservator, you can manage very large wealth without
having gone through any kind of formal and superior education and therefore
having less than zero experience of working in companies of various sizes, in different
fields and geographical locations (even if just here in the USA).
But this
idea of reality being in the mind of the beholder makes me think again that it’s us with our
expectations and ways to look at things that do influence reality, or make new
things happen.
Do any of
my readers know that I think of good things to happen to both my two last neuropsychologists and
my two conservators? I best not say what I’ve been thinking because it’s way
too related to what I had said before about our own God/consciousness and to what
Jesus showed to us when dyeing on the cross.
- http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/reality_is_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cultural-evolution/201010/why-meaning-is-in-the-eye-the-beholder
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel
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