Can we ever see a chair in its totality?

Abstract

No Observer can see the totality of any observed object. One can argue we cannot see the back of any perceived object, but that is a superficial objection since a mirror resolves that ‘problem.’ One cannot see every angle of any perceived object. Hence there is no totality of the vision as per any perceived object. And that is one of the numerous limitations hindering our ability to view reality in its totality. This negative attribute limiting our ability to perceive, feel, taste, sense, feel, touch and/or hear the ‘totality of reality’ has a negative consequence: our relative existential insignificance and our cognitive fragility in knowing our surroundings during our daily lives. In other words, we are no different from people who are partially sighted, from people who have difficulties in hearing and people with other restrictions as per their senses, since they too, cannot sense the ‘totality’ of their environment. You will have noticed I placed the phrase, the ‘totality of reality’ in inverted commas – and that is because the fundamental premise and proposal in this article is precisely that there exists no truth in that aforementioned phrase, given our sensory limitations.

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