Touch, sight, smell etc are all felt on the inside. Everything we see outside is experienced on the inside.?

Question

Does it mean there is nothing outside and what we see inside is projected outside. Or is there nothing like indside/outside and what is, IS?

When by altering something on the 'inside', the 'outside' can be affected -- like in the case of mentally sick people or people on drugs, do you think you can change your own reality with a strong will and desire?

Also, arent the terms 'mentally sick' etc just labels as the madness of the majority is considered normal and the madness of the few 'abnormal' ?

p.s : what can you conclude by connecting all of the above?

Answer 1

There is only an inside.... the outside  gets materialized by the world inside. Thus if you are the observer, it is outside, but the moment you turn around, and rely on memory it is inside, but the observer has disappeared!!  Turn around, and it will start all over with a new outside, which was modified by the previous inside - outside- inside.  Called growth.

Peace.

Answer 2

I think this is definitely a possibility, only it depends on how in touch you are with your emotions, feelings, and how well you know yourself.  Our senses are amazing, there can be a particular smell that reminds us of a childhood experience, or a smell that reminds us of our first love.  Those things stay with you, no matter how much time goes by without experiencing it again.  I think it works very similar with music, and songs that remind us of a time or place that was significant in our lives.  And while we can always remember things in our past, things we do today are memories / senses in the making!

Thanks for reading!

Answer 3

Very intriguing question.

What I'll say is that reality in terms of our thoughts is defined by what we accept as correct and true. But what does it mean to be correct or true? They are merely vague concepts. We all may be living in our own little dream world shaped by our own beliefs. In short, it may all be an illusion. But if you believe in something hard enough and for a long enough time, it becomes reality. It's no different from being brainwashed. Through faith, people have the power to make a dream a reality.

Answer 4

1. The mind at birth is tabula rasa.

2. This empty table is filled with the objects we perceive.

3. Perceptions are memories of sensations.

"A sensation is produced by the automatic reaction of a sense organ to a stimulus from the outside world; it lasts for the duration of the immediate moment, as long as the stimulus lasts and no longer...

A “perception” is a group of sensations automatically retained and integrated by the brain of a living organism, which gives it the ability to be aware, not of single stimuli, but of entities, of things...

Sensations, as such, are not retained in man’s memory, nor is man able to experience a pure isolated sensation. As far as can be ascertained, an infant’s sensory experience is an undifferentiated chaos. Discriminated awareness begins on the level of percepts . . ." Ayn Rand

4. The objects of sensory cognition are called "cognoscenti," or "cognoscentum" for the singular.

5. The cognoscenti of sensory cognition are empirical.

6. Empirical cognoscenti are necessarily outside the body. What is inside the mind is "intellectual," not "empirical."

7. Perceptions of cognoscenti are what fill the tabula rasa.

8. Epistemology, a hard-wired faculty like the faculty of emotions are hard-wired, determines the validity and the nature of the perception.

9. Mental illness is the invalidity of epistemological determinations, to such a degree that the individual is not able to function, or is a possible danger to himself or to others. If these invalid determinations are brain-based they may be helped with medications. If they are mind-based, Epistemic Psychology may be of help.

Answer 5

It's possible that there is no existence outside of our own mind. Everything we experience could be a vast, self-created illusion. This is known in philosophy as "solipsism," and was the problem Descartes *thought* he was solving when he said "I think, therefore I am".

Answer 6

Everything we perceive as being ouside of ourselves is subjective, you see from where you stand. I reccomend Bertrand russells ' the problems of philosophy' as a great starting point for these questions. What we get from our connection to th external world is Sense Data, electrical signals, we then interpret through our understanding, conditioning and acculturation. From connecting all the above you can see that the outer world is subjective and open to any and all interpretations, perhaps the insane are merely differently sane. And we determine what is sane, through consensus.