Optical Illusions

Optical illusions drive home that we do not exactly see what is going on. If our eyes can be fooled in this way, it underscores the method by which we do see, and it seems ever more “context dependent” and that context is what we call physics.

If we were tuned differently, we would see differently, see different things, react in different ways to different sets of happenstance such that we would have created a different world.

Both arbitrarily incorrect and yet absolutely true in that the way we react is the way we react.

And yet this perspective risks being woefully off, because it defines whatever universe/happenstance exists as a “perceiver/perception” situation. That stark binary separation, though it may have subtle judgements and gradations, seems to artificially pull apart that which is an integral wholistic process.

And of course all of these words are wrong, but perhaps they are step ladders useful in imagining more than we can say.

When we abandon words and pursue understanding of the above in wordless consideration, do we get close to something?