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By the way, those other people may not have more callouses in their feet at all. Of course, we don't know. But what we do know is that people experience pain and even sharpness differently.

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Apr 30Liked by DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD

I've looked at life from both sides now

From win and lose and still somehow

It's life's illusions I recall

I really don't know life at all

It's life's illusions that I recall

I really don't know life

I really don't know life at all

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Marc, I know the song so well.

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I love that song and "Windmills of your mind( where do you go my lovely)"

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Apr 29Liked by DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD

There is an implication of this, that underlying the illusionary perception of reality, is a real and solid thing. An objective reality.

Imagine walking waist deep in muddy river, and you cannot see beneath the water. The ground feels squishy beneath you, and as you walk and there are more squishy sensations, until, suddenly, you encounter a sharp rock going into the middle of your foot!

That's how I feel often. Navigating life cautiously, because I really can't see what I am standing on, nor the path ahead of me. Some rocks are just too sharp to walk on, and it takes some degree of effort to avoid them. Other people seem to just have more callous in their feet. They tread wherever they want to.

As for the illusion, yes, it's all a big illusion until you encounter a sharp rock, or the limits of reality. Then you find the real edge underlying the illusion.

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Yes, there is reality but we often see that reality differently and that is the main point. Who has the accurate view? We tend to see things differently. There was a great movie about this: 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda. The jury struggled because each juror saw the case so differently and the "eye witness" did not have an accurate view.

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Apr 30Liked by DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD

Is it not that the person can stand pain more than another person? Because in their reality the Rock is a sponge ? Schrodinger and his/her cat ?

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Yes yes😀👍

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Being unbiased can give a better perception of reality I think? If you are unbiased then you don't see or hear what you want to see or hear ! You just see the whole and hear the whole and "Your" reality should be on the mark in theory! I think Humanity has lost some of its understanding its Compassion and actually opening their minds to what is around them. In todays world we are indoctrinated in what society wants us to learn ( remember) yet Society is breaking down every day, we see it in Syria, Ukraine, Libya ( yes there's still a civil war going on) and of Course Gaza..

We have closed minds, what we were taught was expected from us growing up to how society is today , I think Humanity is at fault in general because they don't look or go and hear for themselves! They don't experience seeing or hearing something new with an Open Mind so their reality becomes twisted.

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