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Question

ok one day i was on my bed with my cat and i tryed to show her a pic of me and see if she would reconize it. but she saw the object but not the picture. and then a thought ocured to me. wat if were the cat and we keep seeing the object but not the picture wheich it represents. well thats not much of a question sorry but can share n e thing with me like something u have relized. or n e way to shed light on it. thank you so much
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Answer 1

nahhh i feel ya.. so you mean we dont see things for what theyre supposed to be seen as.. things pass us by because we;re too busy looking at the object instead of the picture.. i gotchya lol its an interesting point.. see ive looked back on parts of my life though and realized hey why didnt i see that? like things in the past stoood right out but i didnt see them like i should have.. since those encounters ive tried hard to look at the picture as a picture instead of an object.. see you cant get too carried away with that though, caues mistakes are frequent when it comes to that.. yea this is kinda off the point but i need to find a girl like you, one who can see things like that and thinks about things like that.. most girls are tied up on other things and dont look into tihngs like the whole cat picture situation

Answer 2

I believe God made a spectacular picture in the world and many people see trees in the way to be cut down or used as personal things. Ever wonder about the food web? Ever look into ecological relationships. Globally there is a balance needed to keep the world at the temperature it currently is. When we use those resources blindly, the disrupt this balance and God's beauty. Even our solar system and our Galaxy are in balance, we are not powerful enough to disrupt those yet.
Some can see the picture(all things past and future) and some see portions of it, still others do not care or have not been made aware like the cat.
I hope I can see most of God's picture, the reality the picture represents may be damaged if I do not.

Answer 3

The Cat Is Concerned With The Here And Now, Not The,What Was, In The Picture, Is This What You Realized?

Answer 4

Scripture says that if we have seen people's faces then we have seen God. (Bible) This is probably the best example of what you are talking about. Plato also raised this question, and I think at least one other respondance alluded to that.

I don't have all the info on this but one tribe who lived in thick triple canopy jungle was shown a movie and they could not see it, it appeared as 2 dimentional flashes of light apparently; someone once asked me about this.

Cats more likely see it as 2 dimentional, but at least when the cat see it, it is not recognized as being you; remember mirror images cats respond to because it is nearly the same as the actual immage, not a flat static picture.

Any way I think I am somewhat of the Platonic-Cartesian school of thought on the nature of the existence of universals, but I am not settled on everything about it yet,still thinking. I am not sure exactly where Immanuel Kant stands on this issue.

Dave

Answer 5

philisopically, we are the cat, we are what we want to be.
We don't see the truth because if we knew the truth then what would be the point in life. Life in like a mystery and suspense movie, it keeps you thinking and if you know the truth then you would be boring, really boring, because you will have no reason to continue to think.

Although i have a question, how do you know she didn't see the picture as well?

The funny thing is that all the answers are right in front of us, but we only allow are selfs to see what we want to see, the rest is blocked out.

Answer 6

In regards to communication, we are of a few animals on the planet that work with symbols (that which is of verbal communication), we also work with signs (that which represents something else.) So, in regards to your cat, she may have seen the picture, but couldn't put it together as a picture or a symbol, she saw it as something that it "couldn't eat, couldn't pet, couldn't provide children, etc." Animals are more caught in the present than we are, we can change our present reality quite quickly with symbols.

Answer 7

Don't be surprized if the cat draws an incredible portrait of you someday. Cats have amazing artistic ability. What makes you think that she omly saw the object? Did she say so. Of course not!

Answer 8

whoa @ chidi and Deanrwhite... holy moly.... profound... very deep..... *applauds*

Uhmm yeah... anyway... my personal spin on this is... I'm typically pretty perceptive... I'm usually the one that sees things others dont.. Or I see them before others do.

I believe that it's only fear that keeps me from seeing the picture. When I'm too afraid to face something it's easier to slip into a comfortable denial... throw a pretty piece of fabric over it and try and pretend I'm seeing something else... something less frightening...

Answer 9

That's exactly what most human beings do and are like! "The forest for the trees"..... Now that you're more aware of it... try to life live accordingly, you'll become a much better person for it.

Answer 10

My cat just had one eye removed so he's not getting the full picture anymore.