Fable is the Fare of Humans

2 Sep

As Nobel winner physiologist Walter R. Hess (1973) wrote,

Much exists and evolves in this world, which is not accessible to our comprehension, since our cerebral organization is primarily devised so that it secures survival of the individual in natural surroundings. Over and above this, modest silence is the appropriate attitude.

As Buddhist Scholar Sue Hamilton (2000) notes,

[…] if the structure of the world of experience is correlated with the cognitive process, then it is not just that we name objects, concrete and abstract, and superimpose secondary characteristics according to the senses. It is also that all the structural features of the world of experience are cognitively correlated. Space and time are not external to the structure but are part of it.

The neuroanthropologist Terrence William Deacon wrote,

We live our lives in this shared virtual world […] The doorway into this virtual world was opened to us alone by the evolution of language.

Author R. G. H. Siu wrote that humans deceive themselves because of their unique capacity:

Human beings are destined, as humans, to live in a world of make-believe, people with virtual presences of each other and all things existing and not existing. Neither the observer nor the observed can remain human entirely in truth and reality. Fable is the fare of the human.

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