Alert rabbit-holer Bryan Kennedy sent us this link to an amazing story-cartoon.
It’s worth the 3-minutes. Trust me. – Indy
If you want to prepare yourself for this little story cartoon, read this quote I snagged from the wizard’s random quotes database. He always goes to it on day one of the Magical Worlds workshop:
“Our perception does not identify the outside world as it really is, but the way that we are allowed to recognize it, as a consequence of transformations performed by our senses. We experience electromagnetic waves, not as waves, but as images and colors. We experience vibrating objects, not as vibrations, but as sounds. We experience chemical compounds dissolved in air or water, not as chemicals, but as specific smells and tastes. Colors, sounds, smells and tastes are products of our minds, built from sensory experiences. They do not exist, as such, outside our brain. Actually, the universe is colorless, odorless, insipid and silent. Although you and I share the same biological architecture and function, perhaps what I perceive as a distinct color and smell is not exactly equal to the color and smell you perceive. We may give the same name to similar perceptions, but we cannot know how they relate to the reality of the outside world. Perhaps we never will.”
– Dr. Jorge Martins de Oliveira