Seeing is proof positive, we stubbornly insist. Of course, most of us have learned from feats of magic, tricks of perception that it is not possible to believe in everything we see. While on the other hand, some of us have learned that beliefs in religion, and even some areas of science make it possible to trust some things we can t see. And because the eye is always trying to make sense of life, if it encounters a puzzling scene, it corrects the picture to what it knows. If it finds a familiar pattern, it sticks to it, regardless of how inappropriate it might be in that landscape or against that background.
Eyes gather light.
However, seeing, as we think of it, doesn t happen in the eyes but in the brain. Color doesn t occur in the world, but in the mind. The visual image in our head is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. If humans rely simply on their senses, specifically what we see and feel, then the outward appearance of other humans would seem to be the only information needed to gauge another human s condition of life or health. Obviously, this is not a desirable, reliable, or valid practice, but a limiting, insensitive habit or judgment which scarcely reveals the inner life or condition of an individual.