P3D The Mind's Cyclopean Eye

[John Toeppen <toeppen@xxxxxxxx>]

Words are blunt instruments at best.  They are only symbolic of reality
and are a separate reality in and of themselves.  "Truth" and "reality"
always have deeper realities beyond the obvious.  All theories and
models are only approximations - just as Newtonian physics are only a
first order reality and not revealing of atomic and nuclear principles.
It is like geometric optics, orders of aberrations, circles of confusion
and wave mechanics.  Simple things become impossibly complex if
accurately described.
Cyclopean vision references puzzled me for a while years ago.  Then I
realized that they were talking about "fusion" of the senses to produce
the sense of being.  This was about "the minds eye."  Clunky word
choice, but that was the notion.
Our discussions will have no effect on the many books and references
that are already out there.  We may affect each other's word choices in
the future. I rather like the notion of image fusion leading to a
wholistic sense of being there.  After all, the sense of being continues
even when we close our eyes regardless of previous monoscopic or
stereoscopic inputs.
Some antics with semantics can be fun. Mainly because it can lead to
metaphysical ponderings - followed by a desire to capture stereo images.
Or is it the other way around?

John Toeppen