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    A Novel Study of Vision - and How It Defines the Reality of the Mind, the 'I' or the 'Self'
    A Novel Study of Vision - and How It Defines the Reality of the Mind, the 'I' or the 'Self'
    A Novel Study of Vision - and How It Defines the Reality of the Mind, the 'I' or the 'Self'
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    A Novel Study of Vision - and How It Defines the Reality of the Mind, the 'I' or the 'Self'

    By Ayad Gharbawi

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    Using novel symbols, the Author studies if there are tangible, meaningful constituents within the fabric of the Mind and Vision are, and in doing so, he seeks to find a deeper meaning to what our ultimate Reality is. Is there a functioning, operating connection between Mind and Vision? What is the relationship and relevance between self-awareness and Mind and Vision? The Author argues that we only exist when we are being self conscious of our minds, and that without self awareness we do not and cannot physically exist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateMar 23, 2012
    ISBN9781467890564
    A Novel Study of Vision - and How It Defines the Reality of the Mind, the 'I' or the 'Self'
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    Ayad Gharbawi

    Ayad Gharbawi graduated from Boston University in 1989 with an MA degree; he has had several books published in a variety of subjects. One of his best selling work is 'Conversations With Hitler And Stalin'. He lives in Surrey, England.

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      A Novel Study of Vision - and How It Defines the Reality of the Mind, the 'I' or the 'Self' - Ayad Gharbawi

      1.

      Introduction

      I will be proposing in this study an entirely novel method in seeking to understand what the ‘reality of the mind’, or the ‘Self’ is. This novel approach will inevitably be met with refusals because, historically speaking – that is, within the History of Science and Philosophy - novel and radical approaches in science have been far too often dismissed.

      In this book, I will analyze:

      What is ‘Vision’?

      1. Are there ‘constituents’ to Vision?

      2. If so, what are these ‘Constituents of Vision’?

      Next, I propose to discuss the following:

      1. What is the ‘Reality’ of the Observing Mind relative to the Observed Vision?

      2. Are there functional relationships between the two?

      3. Can we draw certain conclusions relevant to one aspect of what constitutes the Mind, and there from, can we seek a better understanding of what the ‘I’, or the ‘Self’ is?

      In seeking such an understanding, I have sought to increase our understanding of the issues we shall discuss, by employing novel mathematical and logic symbols. This will be of fundamental importance to my thesis, not only because I am using novel notations and symbols, but because the latter will enable us to clarify and speed up our understanding of the subject matter.

      I will propose, that just as it was necessary for men like G.Boole to create a new symbolic language in order to uncover an existing ‘reality’, so too, we need to seek another viewpoint from which we can analyze this particular study I am presenting.

      I have found that by creating this new ‘language’ for studying the Mind, I have been able to speed up my understanding of this subject matter.

      I know that this novel method will be controversial since creating a novel language structure is usually dismissed as unacceptable by a majority.

      But we students must continue with our endeavours; since what I hope to do in this study is to establish the salient characteristics of the relationship between Mind and Vision; it will be proposed that these characteristics possess an inherently abstract quality. It ought to be immediately stated that the concept of the ‘abstract’ will be fundamentally and extremely important in our study.

      Therefore, there will be, of necessity, a further study, of what we mean when we employ the terms ‘abstract’.

      Further, I seek to analyse the relationship between Mind and Vision, the functional connection and the interaction between Mind and Vision, by creating a clearer understanding of what Mind and Vision are, wether there exists any relationship and/or interactions between the two or not, and that, in turn, will allow us a closer inspection of what the Reality of the ‘Mind’ or the ‘Self’ is.

      2.

      Analysis of Vision

      In this part of the study, I shall attempt to explain how and why Vision is of critical importance if we seek to understand what mind is.

      We shall see that the very abstractness of Vision is, in itself, a contributing factor to the overall understanding of what mind is.

      To begin our understanding of what I call the ‘elusive’ quality of Vision is, I shall pose a simple mind question: When we are seeing an object, (let us say, a flower), what do we actually ‘see’?

      I shall propose that what we are seeing is an ‘Abstract Image’ of that object. I will now explain why I use the term ‘Abstract Vision’.

      I deliberately use the term ‘Image’ for two distinct reasons: firstly because our visual perception of any Observed Entity is dependent on the differing anatomical differences and the differing optical accuracy of the eye of the Observer. Thus, if we allow a bee, an eagle, a human and a worm to see our object, (the flower), they will all ‘see’ different ‘images’ of the same object. Therefore, the one Observed Entity has an unlimited number of differing ‘images’, and all these differing images contradict each other, since, to use our example, what the bee ‘sees’ will not be what the worm ‘sees’, and so on. A second reason is this: our perception of an Observed Entity depends on our awareness and focus which is, of course, always changing and that, in turn alters the Vision of the perceived object. That is why I use the term ‘Image’.

      There can therefore never be a ‘one’ ‘real’ image of the observed flower.

      Observers only see ‘Images’ and these Images are all different from other observers.

      The reason why I use the term ‘Abstract’ is more complex. I propose that when we see any object, we are seeing a collection, an amalgamation, or a collection of Nothingnesses. Let me ask you to do the following experiment: focus on any object (our flower, for example). Now, your Mind can relate to, recognize what he/she is seeing; that is, the Observer – or, the ‘Self’ or the ‘I’ - can state that he/she is ‘seeing a flower’. I shall denote the ‘Observer’ using (Ob).

      Next, focus on one specific point on the flower, and try to think of nothing else, and try to observe nothing else except at this specific, particular point on the flower. Now, try to ‘define’ for yourself what it is you are actually seeing within this point on the flower. You will find, try as you may, that you cannot observe anything. You are seeing a ‘nothingness’. As hard as you may concentrate, as focused as you can be – your Vision will not ‘see anything’ that is visible, perceptible or recognizable to your Mind. There is, in effect a de facto blindness to our Vision when we concentrate on that one particular point.

      Can we ever say, with any precision, what it is we ‘see’ when we focus on one single point on an object?

      I propose, that when we focus our mind on one point on the Observed Entity, (hereafter referred to as ‘OO’), and we do not allow our mind to think of anything else except on that point on the (OO), we ‘see’ a ‘nothingness’.

      By ‘nothingness’, I mean that our Mind cannot functionally, meaningfully relate to, or recognize anything within the boundaries of that observed point. We have, as I have said, arrived at a ‘blind spot’.

      And yet, we must remember that it is precisely this nothingness that will ultimately generate the ‘whole’ Vision of the OO. It is for this reason that I use the term ‘Abstract’ in describing Vision.

      Now, we must elaborate on what we mean by ‘Abstract’, because the concept of the Abstract will play such a fundamentally important part in our thesis. By using the latter term in the general sense - the ‘Abstract’ - I mean any perceived object that is in the realm of the metaphysical. I mean all that is indefinable, indescribable, immeasurable, elusive, hazy, formless and blurred. However as far as Vision goes, the following needs to be noted: ‘Abstract Vision’ means anything for which our Mind simply cannot ‘see’, functionally relate to, recognize or comprehend in any meaningful manner.

      Let us return to our simple experiment we were just discussing: focusing on one particular point of an Observed Entity. It seems to add up that:

      1. When the Observer stares at one particular point of an Observed Entity he will see a ‘nothingness’; and,

      2. So therefore all observed reality is/are made up precisely from this/these ‘nothingness’ – or ‘Nothingnesses’ (to use the plural).

      When an Observer (Ob) looks at a particular point, or at a Focused Observed Point, (hereafter referred to as ‘FOP’), on an (OO), an Abstraction of Vision will necessarily occur, because what the (Ob) sees is in the FoP is a nothingness – or nothing that he/she can relate to, precisely because the constituents of any object vis-à-vis Mind and Vision is made up of Nothingnesses, or abstractions.

      Therefore, Vision becomes irrelevant in relation to the Observed Point, because there is no meaningful connection between Mind and the FoP. It is irrelevant

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