Facebook saw a lot of posts where people shared this idea: "Some scientists agree that if you saw a clone of yourself, you wouldn't recognize it. This is because our idea of what we look like (from pictures and reflections) is so different from what we actually look like."
Take a moment here to think about this. You have never "seen" yourself in reality - buying vegetables, taking a walk in a park - never. People around you have always told you what YOU look like (with the advent of technology of course you could visually see yourself on a different medium - paper, print and now digital). You had to believe these people and the prints in front of you. There was no reason, not to... Right?
Now picture yourself in 3D walking down the street and assume you're watching yourself as a third person. Would you recognize yourself? Is the person that you 'see', reflective of who you 'think' you are? Notice how your mind and your visually senses can be contradictory and deceptive.
If you cannot recognize your own self in reality, what is to prove that the people around you are as real as you believe? You speak to them, you laugh with them, you live with them, you can see and feel them. That's your senses. And your brain perceives all the emotions that you attach to these people.
Who are they? Are you sure they are real, or just a figment of your imagination?
~ A Beautiful Mind
Take a moment here to think about this. You have never "seen" yourself in reality - buying vegetables, taking a walk in a park - never. People around you have always told you what YOU look like (with the advent of technology of course you could visually see yourself on a different medium - paper, print and now digital). You had to believe these people and the prints in front of you. There was no reason, not to... Right?
Now picture yourself in 3D walking down the street and assume you're watching yourself as a third person. Would you recognize yourself? Is the person that you 'see', reflective of who you 'think' you are? Notice how your mind and your visually senses can be contradictory and deceptive.
If you cannot recognize your own self in reality, what is to prove that the people around you are as real as you believe? You speak to them, you laugh with them, you live with them, you can see and feel them. That's your senses. And your brain perceives all the emotions that you attach to these people.
Who are they? Are you sure they are real, or just a figment of your imagination?
~ A Beautiful Mind
