I am confused..?

Question

We all know that we 'see' things as a result of light reflected from them.The eye perceive the reflected light from the object. But the reflected light does not emanate from the object. It emanates from somewhere else and a part of it is reflected by the object. This reflected part is what we observe with our eyes.

So the reflected light is what we see.
But the reflected light is not the object.
Therefore, what we see is not the object.
So, what is the object?

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Answer 1

There is no definite object. All we have access to (evidence for) is our own experience.

Answer 2

If I had to venture a guess; I would say that the object is the observer. Assuming that the very act of observing creates reality, the object is just a fabrication of the observer; it would come from the observer himself, thus being a part of him. Greater minds than my own have tackled this question, and some are still unsure; so there's a good chance that I'm totally wrong.

Answer 3

I'm blonde....slow down!

I think the answer to your question, is that the object in question, is what you want it to be, or what society has deemed it to be. The object is still the object and the reflective light is from the energy that object gives off. Pay attention....I don't think I can explain this again!

Answer 4

According to Buddhist teachings: The five sensory consciousnesses arise as a result of three conditions.

Apprehending condition - object (mind perceiving an apple, as in the SHAPE and COLOR)
Immediate condition - the preceding moment of consciousness, which is the immediate moment of consciousness before your eye apprehended the object for the 1st time
Empowering condition - the eye organ

The object itself is empty of inherent existence... doesn't exist from it's own side... there's no THING you can really call "apple" because it arises due to other causes and conditions, so you're seeing something you give a LABEL to as being "apple".

While you perceive something, it might not be correct perception, but it IS valid perception as you perceive it.

Make sense?

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Answer 5

Well, the object still is what it is... Example, for thousands of years people have called a chair a chair. The light reflected FROM the chair isn't the WHOLE chair, but part of the chair, so is it still a chair???

Yes. It conforms to the basic ideal of chairness and it IS. It has to be called something, so it is acceptable that it is called a chair....

Answer 6

If you analyze anything this far, you will get confused. You are seeing the object. The description of the light is how the eye sees the object.

Answer 7

See now you shouldn't be trying to tie in philosophy with physics. Then you get new age philosophy that picks and chooses it's facts to make it's own beliefs look like it is scientificly sound. The photons of light are taking the information contained in the object and putting them into our eye and our eye then sends an electrical signal to the brain and the brain makes sense of the electrical impulse.

Answer 8

atoms? The electrons of the different elements or compounds making up the object have different frequency's and absorb or reflect different parts of the light according to its frequency on the spectrum. I'm just guessing. all matter so scientists say is made of atoms.

Answer 9

As you turn a screw into a project, it is not the screw you are turning but the screwdriver instead. Does that mean you do not affect the screw and the end result is not what you intended?

Does the object not exist until observed, or is it still present without your consciousness of its existence?

Answer 10

It's what you see.