Shades of Gray

[Iliaran]

An ambulance just sped by my house, sirens n all, and as it got further and further away, the sound of the siren got less and less distinct. During that time...there was a moment where I doubted myself: could I really still hear the siren, or was it just in my head? It got me thinking. Is knowledge absolute? Are things either true or false, black and white?...in a world of absolutes...can shades of gray in knowledge even exist?

 

[VegetaClam]

It's Always just in your head. Even If there is an ambulance It wouldn't much matter if you didn't have a head, now would it? Try as you might you can never escape it. It binds you to this world like a slave's shackles bind him to his master.

-Vegeta Clam

 

[Iliaran]

lol VegetaClam...thats not exactly what I meant...course the perception of sound involves the relay of information from our ears to neurons in the cerebral cortex...

What I really meant: Is it just in your head as in are you just imagining the siren, or can you really still hear it (you know...when the sound's so faint you just can't be sure)

 

[Korittke]

" Is it just in your head as in are you just imagining the siren, or can you really still hear it (you know...when the sound's so faint you just can't be sure)"
If you want a specific answer, there is none. It's a philosophical problem that goes with this. The whole thing with reality, senses, mind, existance of physical stuff and so on. In actual fact the answer is that you don't know anything, whether you hear the siren or not, it can always be an imagination.