Or are they just interpretational inaccuracies? Or as i will call them inexactitudes.
Humans are creatures of interpretation. Data is recepted to us from our sensory organs, our brain perceives it, and then it is stored. As a result there are 2 major sources of error in that chain of events, the perception, and our memory.
I will respond to the latter first (uncharacteristically) - our memory.
Memory is the collated interperetation of our life experiences. But it is more like a beach after every tide .... the beach as a whole remains constant, its not like one day you will go to Pigeon Point and it won't be there, but at the same time the landscape changes ever so slightly. Similarly while an event remains constant, the details are victim to interpertation and imagination. Have you ever been asked something and after a long pause you say "I'm trying to remember if it was (.....) or (....) " .......... if an event is a definite, how can you "try to remember" ?...... how can you execute a thought process for an absolute ?!
"Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. " - Memento (2000) {2nd greatest movie ever}
The simple answer is that there are no absolutes, our brain stores lego blocks of information. Based on the pieces available we say "the entire thing may have been a house" ........ it may have been a boat. But our perception stitches back the initial idea into what we deem was most logical to us. "We try to remember ... " really means "we try to stitch".
And now u see why i put the latter first, because we come back to the idea of perception.
I will start with a story:
I was coming home one night driving. It was late, i was sleepy, my eyes were drifting. In the distance i saw 4 red lights a pair above and a pair below. I was driving up to truck. A lorry of course, with the big square back ends. It was on the highway and this truck was moving. This was a reality ........ wrong !!! ......... it was a red traffic light. And below the traffic light was a line of cars stopped at it, my 2 pairs of lights were 2 seperate objects ..... the traffic light some way off which made it look like the small lights on the top of trucks, and the lower light, was much closer ........ and not moving. Needless to say my reality was shattered as well as my fender......... actually no ..... my fender was fine ...... that was just to make the story exciting and somewhat comical. Did it work? .........
....... I didn't think so.......
but anyway, the point is the truck was my truth, that was my reality ........... realising that it wasn't, was so confusing that i denied it.......... i acknowledged the existance of a red light ...... but i refused to believe that there was no truck. And that brings me to the ultimate point. What is the truth? All time and events as experienced by any individual, their truths, are all subject to their interperetation. So when one person's interperetation interacts with another's that is not congruent ...... does that make one person a liar to the other?
Obviously, there is one ultimate and absolute truth, though we may never interpret it ....ie. that there is no truck (or no spoon if you want to quote the matrix) ....... but without justification for another interperetation (seeing no truck) ....... the initial interperetation - the lie - is in fact the truth (my truth).
In dealing with other people - situations, events and emotions- we must remember that there is no definitive truth. Their is only agreement upon ideas....... or as usually the case - disagreement. So an open mind should be kept when assigning reality. By going into a situation with a pre-disposed idea, we open ourself up to skewed interperetation ........ A warping of the "facts". Our realities will be created by our pre-conceived notions.
Its a perception reception screwed from inception.
So in conclusion,
Baby, that was not my car you saw at strip club ....
That was not me you saw getting into it .....
I don't remember being there .....
I perceived that i was somewhere doing something else ............. :)
Where are you going ?? .........
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Perception .........
This will later be deemed a lie .... lol
(Guess by whom ........) -> -> ->
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