And it sticks. I mean, focus your attention in that little world of meanings and symbols long enough and you’ll tend to get stuck there.

But reality is infinitely larger than that little world. So to stay there, in that little world, to have your perspective altered like that all the time, is a bit unhealthy and insane.

But this is considered normal. Encouraged even.

  • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    In the analysis sure, words, thoughts and symbolic stuff are just little 2d cartoons. Obvious stuff. But in practice we treat them as God’s own titty, flowing with the milk of truth.

    There is a willing suspension of disbelief going on there. Like, if I don’t pretend that your idea for the word “dog” is the same as mine, then the conversation just collapses. So I let my grasp on reality slide.