Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Visual appeal

Some evening I was cycling to the reading room. It was downhill so letting the cycle do its work. On my right, the sun is setting behind the clouds. Not the everyday cover of white clouds at a distance but floating mountains of bluish orange soft cotton. They will wring themselves dry any minute. I wanted to keep looking but I had to watch the road too. The choice of selective sight goes deeper. The undeniable limitations of our sight can only help us with one direction (or perception). At any point of time, we have the choice to stay with what we want and ignore the rest. We may never even know that 'the rest' exists. But 'the rest' does exists. It is very much alive and well.
The question... How can we know what we don't know (Ontology), and more importantly, how can we know about one thing when we are looking at another?