Week 7 - Calvin Huang

Our perception of reality is dictated by the type of anatomy we have.  ”We have yet to learn that physical existence cannot be divorced from the animal life and structures that coordinate sense perception and experience. Indeed, it seems likely that this creature was the center of its own sphere of reality just as I was the center of mine” (2). Because we depend on our senses to see, smell, or hear, we are bound by these constraints and cannot escape them.  That brings us to the question of what else can we not perceive?  If there are things that we cannot perceive and that actually exist, then we can apply that logic to the spirit realm.  Maybe we are ill equipped to reach and to the spirit realm.  Like a bug who cannot perceive the stare of our eyes, we cannot peer into the spirit realm.  What if we were able to modify that?  What if humanity reaches a point where we can modify ourselves? There may lie a possibility where we change ourselves so much that we can observe outside our perception, in other words, attain omniscience.  But then, we would lose what makes us human and thus, lose our humanity.  But I wonder if that logic even makes sense.  Just because you don’t perceive something happening, doesn’t mean it did not happen.  I do not perceive the person reading this passage, but nevertheless they are reading it.  I do not fully agree with this article, but it has brought up questions that I have never thought about before.  Moving forward, I will consider the existence of the spirit realm as something I cannot perceive, but still might be there.

Question: If there are things outside of our perception, are there other beings that are watching us the same way we watch ants?

Citations

Lanza, Robert. "A New Theory of the Universe." The American Scholar. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 May 2017.

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