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Ed Brenegar's avatar

As I read this, I am wondering… is this an example of the idea that all reality is perception? Or, is there something beyond what we can perceive?

Adam Karaoguz's avatar

There is something interactive about consciousness- we change what we observe at the quantum level. I think it's arrogant to think there's nothing beyond what we perceive. From science, we have the concepts of dark matter and dark energy that are supposed to be 95% of the universe, and we're still in the early stages of understanding them.

Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Very interesting. There's a lot there in the inter-relationships. I really like how you broke this down.

Baird Brightman's avatar

Wonderful writing, Adam! Looking at Henriques' "Tree of Knowledge" graphic reminds me of having my mind blown (and reassembled in a good way!) upon reading Ludwig Bertalaffny's book "General Systems Theory". In my work, I rely on a bio-psycho-socio-environmental model of human nature for discovering where the "problem" lies and how to get some leverage to fix it. Embracing those 4 levels simultaneously seems to work much better than running with only one of them as many specialists tend to do. But it can also sometimes give me a headache!