Language and Reality (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, April 16, 2011, 21:52 (4766 days ago) @ dhw

I apologize for the late reply, but I have been out of town since last Friday and no where near a computer. -DHW, -Let me try once more to clarify my position, as I am apparently making little sense. The concept in my head is crystal clear, but I am having a hard time explaining it. -When you 'see' light, you are actually seeing light in the form of photons that are bouncing around and being detected by your eyes. When you 'see' darkness, you are not 'seeing' anything at all, but since we perceive that nothingness(i.e. our brain does not stop searching for light thus it remains conscious of the absence of light), we have labeled it with the term 'darkness', which has the unfortunate side-effect. This to me is my common sense approach to reality. I can not explain it any better, and if you are still confused by my rationalization than I apologize. -There are numerous unseen forces that we can measure by their affect on the world around us, i.e. Gravity, Magnetism, Centrifugal Force. We do not visually see them, we can not touch, taste, hear, or smell them. Yet, we know that they exist, even if our understanding of them is incomplete. -I view God in much the same way. I see the inherent order in the universe, it's physical laws, as the measurable proof of the existence of an intelligence. Much they way your bathroom scale will take into account the overall impact of gravity on your body mass, I look at the overall impact and organization throughout existence to be my scale that gauges my belief in a UI.