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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
When Plato says that what you hear does not come from what you see he is perfectly correct. The colors that are produced in your mind by a message from your optic nerve do not cause the sounds that you hear. The green is not in the grass, only in your mind. The grass absorbs various radio waves, and your eye picks up on the unabsorbed reflected waves. The green is your body's miraculous way of letting you know about the radio waves around you. This can be seen in a gestalt shift.
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I used to trip people out in Socratic small talk bring up shit like the reality of colors.. on that note, its not green at all, but the all of the visible wavelength light radiation we call colors BUT green, as the object has absorbed the light of the other colors and reflected 'green' light. it is not green at all, it is every color BUT green..
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Zen Buddhists think we can have direct contact with the mysterious outside reality--not merely contact with images that those objects helped produced (satori)
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read some of the Church Fathers canonical writings on Iconography and Iconostasis your above explanation is the Orthodox support for icons after the era of Iconoclasm.. If you combine Einstein with these kinds of supernatural philosophies you get an interesting picture of reality. There is no such thing as 'solid' at all, the so-called tangible world of ours is merely a product of our imagination, to make a lovely story out of all the chaotic sensory perception of the 'real' world..
The unfortunate side-effect of our modern scientific era is that unlike the days of Plato, today's great thinkers are terrified of religious or spiritual contemplation, and so produce deprived explanations that lack the poetry and life of the Classical Age..