3 How Perception is Created
“Thought creates the world then says ‘I didn't do it’”
David Bohm, Quantum physicist
“Now in a dream, our mind continuously does this… We create and perceive our world simultaneously… And our mind does this so well that we don't even know it's happening…”
These words are spoken by Leonardo DiCaprio, playing Cobb, in the film Inception (2010, Warner Bros. Pictures). He's explaining how dreams work, but our waking experience is generated in exactly the same way (albeit with access to a “live data feed”). To paraphrase Cobb:
“In your waking experience of reality, your mind continuously creates and perceives a world simultaneously… So well that you don't feel your mind doing the creating.”
The implications of this ...
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