A Perspective on Life

We perceive life as individuals by taking part in an universal experience from different positions in space, causing differences in perspective. These different perspectives cause conflicts and contradictions in our definition of the truth, i.e. the actual motion of the parts that compose the universe. The correct perspective to maintain is that which accurately describes the motion of the universe’s parts. However, due to physical and practical limitations, we must condense explanations to only relay significant information, or what we arbitrarily consider significant information. The substance of truth is usually lost when it is separated from the whole truth. And as the whole truth requires describing all events that have occurred, are occurring, and will occur, it is impossible to know. Granted our situation, we do not need to know every detail of the universe, only what is necessary. What is necessity or necessary is another question for a later time.

Personal beliefs are dependent on the nature of a particular perspective. The mind’s cognitive capabilities are not unlimited. We are able to focus on one matter at a time. For, to perform an action accurately and quickly, the whole course of motion must be seen as a single movement. But, since the process of actualizing an idea or goal requires forethought(granted we are speaking of a rational being actualizing an idea or goal), we can only think of known phenomena, and adapt ourselves to any anomalies. This causes a disharmony in the mind, because the mind must stop its initial mental movement, that which formulated a plan of action, to mend external disunity(i.e. disunity of the mental perception of the world and the world as it is in of itself). For an anomaly is just an unconsidered event. All anomalies than become known phenomena and are assimilated to known knowledge when they occur. But, dealing with them at the time of the occurrence requires we divert our attention from our main goal to a novel problem.