I think that darkness surrounds us and what we think of as sight is just different frequencies creating electrical impulses in our eyes.
2006-07-29 17:15:37 · 16 answers · asked by dj_madsteve 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The definition of sight is "the ability to see". "Seeing" means to perceive with the eye. Therefore, even using your process, we still do have sight - you have just re-defined the sight process: An object causes the frequencies, and our eyes use the electrical impulses to perceive the object.
Even if your theory on the sight process is true, it doesn't prove or disprove the existence of light. Your sight theory doesn't include light - it deems it unnecessary to sight. But unnecessary and non-existent are not the same thing, and something can exist even if we don't percieve it.
Every time a new planet, or animal or plant species is discovered, we prove that something that we did not percieve has existed outside of our knowledge.
Nice try. Keep working on it.
It is an interesting idea.
2006-07-29 17:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by Andrea 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Photons are real. They are sent through the universe by the atomic reactions occurring on the sun. A few of them stream from the surface of the sun, come through our atmosphere and bounce off the face of your lover and into your eyes. Cells in the back of your eyes are sensitive to these photons and create electrical impulses that flow into your brain through the optic nerve. The pattern of your lovers face is recognized and you begin to smile before you can think a single thought.
But there is much more light entering your eye than your eye can tell your brain about. We only see a very small spectrum of all the light created by the sun and everything around us.
So the world is not dark, my friend, it is brighter than we could ever imagine!
Xan Shui,
Philosophical Philanthropist, Honest Man
2006-07-30 08:48:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
difference of the same or similiar...i see interesting.
well anyway you COULD see darkness without light and vice versa. there could be no light at all but what we think of as light is actually just less-dark darkness. we do not need light to see because we can see in the dark...just not that well. i think all of us are in the dark and only the dark...and what we see is different levels of darkness. we as humans on earth have no light, we are in the dark because only God can see everything because he has the light. That is why there are somethings we will never know and are not meant to know. We will all find out in the After Life when the light is given to us....for now we just think we have light just because we are not in pitch black darkness
2006-07-30 00:40:47 · answer #3 · answered by basfasfasfa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to my profile, look at my 360, look at my paintings and tell me if you think these could have possibly been created in darkness?
The only way this could be possible, according to your theory, is if we created our own perceptions of light.
All things have polar opposites. There can not be darkness without light nor light without darkness.
2006-07-30 01:47:45 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I double-checked my lamps and I'm pretty sure I'm not surrounded by darkness.
But seriously, visible light is just one of many frequencies of waves. There's no reason living beings couldn't perceive other waves (microwaves, x-rays, etc.) as images in their brains the way we do with visible light.
Read "Unweaving The Rainbow" - great discussion of waves, sight, etc.
2006-07-30 00:20:04 · answer #5 · answered by frugernity 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But without light, we would not know darkness, and if what you say is true, we would live in darkness and never know the difference, rather than having false images transported to our eyes.
2006-07-30 00:20:11 · answer #6 · answered by The Bulletproof Monk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course darkness surrounds us...the inability to percieve reality always produces darkness.
2006-07-30 00:23:06 · answer #7 · answered by lamarche22 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dam it who told you? Well guys guess where going to have to kill him.
I mean that may be true which would mean that I was in your mind and everything eals is in your mind, which is toddley possible, but saying it like that make you sound dumb.
And no your wrong just because your wrong OK. I don't think that at all. I know what your thinking. "O'shur he sez that he is in my mind after all." You know what I have one thing to say to you, shut up and live this grate lie which is reality, got it!?
2006-07-30 00:25:40 · answer #8 · answered by Gumby G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the light is being sucked up by the super-massive black hole at the center of every galaxy.
I have to admit though that you have such scientific reasoning that I may yet be convinced.
2006-07-30 00:26:54 · answer #9 · answered by kents411 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that I will be in complete darkness soon enough, so I just appreciate the light and go on day to day...........
2006-07-30 00:20:24 · answer #10 · answered by mizzzzthang 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋