Exercise • The Green Experiment

The Lie of Reality • observer-relative experience.

Distinguish physical process, experience, description, and the human habit of treating consensus as a view from nowhere.

A leaf is not filled with a substance called green. Light, surface, sensory system, nervous system, consciousness, and language participate in an experience called green.

Where is the green?

 Go outside and find something green.  Look before naming it.  Notice what is experienced.  Then describe it.  Ask where the green was.

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Two observers can stand beside one another and call what they see the same rainbow. Their positions differ. The light entering their eyes differs. The experience is local to each observer. Human