All We Know Are Our Thoughts

One of the simple truths which many people do not understand or even think about is the fact that all we know is represented within ourselves.When we see a tree we do not see the tree but only the representation of it in our minds and an alien with a totally different neurology would percieve something totally different. A tree is a concrete object but concepts also reside in our mind which may or may not exist in reality.Beauty exists in the mind of the beholder but is not objective any more than ugliness.God is a concept or grouping of thoughts which exist only within our mind and as such is a proper class or a set which cannot be collected into a whole.The concept of god however is a powerful one and as a thought is self reinforcing.Believers in god love the thought with no real proof of it's objective reality.One can fall in love with a thought of a class of properties just as easily as one can fall in love with the thought of a person who of course is represented in our consciousness as a grouping of properties. .In both cases the attractiveness of the categories which represent the person or concept is what makes us attracted to it.However beautiful and spreading ideas are not necessarily in accordance with reality but may may be just a powerful virus.What one sees is not the world as it is and as such we only follow what our mind can represent.