Garfield Space

October 3rd, 2007 Fred McVittie Posted in Boundary, Perception, Space |

The world before our eyes is objective space and we can/must imagine that space as having a centre. Hear we all are, standing in a vast circle and all looking inwards towards the centre of the circle. There before us is shared space, there is the space of objects, triangulated, confirmed, peer reviewed, double-blind tested, felt from every angle by every being in the circle. These objects are carved out of the gaze of all of us in the circle of science, and so sharp is our vision that there is no subjectivity clinging, messily and unkempt, on the surface of the objects. There is the light, there is the clean white world.

And here we are, facing into the circle with arms outstretched, like novelty Garfields stuck onto the surface of a great glass sphere. Behind us, individually and collectively, is the gathering dark which is the source of our vision, in front of us is the brightly-lit cave-like interior of the objective world.