Coherency, Perception, and Truth

Instead of pushing further into economic territory for this evening's blog, I'm going to hop over into psychology, logic, and synaesthesia.  We'll look at a couple models in order to try to understand how we perceive the world.

I'm not an atheist or a theist, but one of my favorite chapters on perception comes from The End of Faith by Sam Harris.  Rather than quote it extensively, I'll leave it on my bookshelf next to The Reason for God and summarize instead.  The basic reasoning is that in order to think something, we temporarily experience a world where we believe it.  In order to make sense of the thought "I'm about to be bitten by a dog," we have to comprehend an imaginary reality where that is the case.  Conversely, in order to believe something, we must be continuously thinking it in the background.  Thus a faithful Discordian looks at the world with the assumption, "God is a crazy woman and Her name is Eris."  This allows them to make sense of the world in the Discordian way, and highlights their perceptions of chaotic things.