Light-Continued
This entry is based on the previous post dated March the first 2010.
My discovery that our current working model pertaining to vision leaves room, or rather, causes room for skepticism has put me on a new track entirely. Before we continue, let me outline my criticism on the current working model referenced.
Our current version of the working model is that lights hits the Retina (a collection of neurons) which then interprets the light. The interpretation is “chemicalized” and transmitted to the brains. The brains translate the chemical message into a picture that can be reacted to.
Simply put, this means that the actual light never reaches the brains and that, thus, the brains have no shot at receiving “what is” on their own. They, in stead, receive an interpretation of “what is” and this leaves room for doubt. Why is there room for doubt? Because we cannot make sure that the interpretation of the Retina is accurate. And if we cannot make sure of this, then we must, by definition, entertain the notion that it might not be. Notice that this is not the claim that the Retina does not interpret accurately…the claim made is one of doubt entirely, either way.
What happens is that our scientific explanation, while offering a plausible reasoning, forces a reason for doubt simultaneously. Our findings on how vision works has been dependent upon what we could see…yet, what we can see cannot currently be verified as being accurate (following the working model offered by science) which forces doubt to arise. The doubt pertaining to the explanation arises only because of the inner dynamics of what the explanation offers. The issue would be resolved if we could prove, undeniably so, that the Retina interprets accurately, because then there is no more doubt about what the working model is based on. But since this is not currently possible (or has not yet occurred to the best of my knowledge) we are left with an open ending.
What I’m particularly interested in is the reference to an Einstein quote. In this quote Einstein says (roughly) that the level of thinking which created the problem cannot be expected to solve the problem. We can thus do two things. We can either enhance our thinking to explain the perceived discrepancy offered by the explanation…or we can abandon the method entirely. I do not offer any answers…for I lack the knowledge and insight to do so. I can merely point out the problem at this moment in time.
For now though I remain with my axiom. And that is that we should not look for what is objectively real in our every day life, but for what is most functional. In this we must learn to find our happiness. In this we must learn to find love.