Wednesday, June 27, 2007

"Esse est percipi."

“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)

What if a hidden camera is placed in the trees to capture the tree falling? No one was there to perceive it at that time... but it made a sound, as perceived by the camera. Does this mean that the perceiving can be done by objects such as the camera? Or Was the camera just showing an illusion? Or was it that the whole tree falling phenomenon happened all over again (or just happened!) the moment we played the record because that's just the time we perceived it? and from everything we have perceived in our experiences and reasoned with our minds, we know that cameras record what's in front of them which gives us a justified true belief that there really was a tree falling phenomenon which happened deep in the woods, perceived by no one except the camera and perhaps some ants that were squashed by the falling tree? Therefore, we have knowledge about that event.
Oh, and therefore, God exists! Since there is the possibility nga naman that the camera does not count as a perceiver and neither do the ants since they no longer existed(they were squashed beneath the tree remember?) so God was the one who perceived it. He perceives everything and so everything exists since everything is perceived. Bow.

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