Questions to Answer?
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2025 10:43 am
1: Does the Observer want to be Observed?
2: Does the Observer not want to be Observed?
2: Does the Observer not want to be Observed?
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Since absolutely every thing is relative to the observer, the answer/s to your question, here, would all depend on 'the observer', "itself".
Every body 'observes', [smells, tastes, feels, hears, and sees], every thing as they Truly are, or as they are exactly. However, 'you', people, interpret and misinterpret what is observed, and sensed, because of previously experiences, which have left 'you' with pre-existing pre/assumptions and beliefs.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Nov 15, 2025 11:18 amGood question, really. Do detached observers who don't feel the joy or sorrow of those s/he observes observe anything as it truly is?
1. The default of an Observer is to observe whatever is observable, thus including its empirical self [there is no soul-in-itself].
There is no so-called 'empirical self. So, obviously what there is not, can not be observed.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am1. The default of an Observer is to observe whatever is observable, thus including its empirical self [there is no soul-in-itself].
But, there is no 'physical self'.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am Surely an observers can observe its own physical self and use a mirror or video to observe whatever is outside its perceptual range.
But, there is no 'default' in 1.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am 2. In general, Point 2 is moot in contra to the default in 1.
But can the observer be located specifically to an actual location within it's visual field, except to say only as a temporal finite reflection, an appearance already within it?Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am1. The default of an Observer is to observe whatever is observable, thus including its empirical self [there is no soul-in-itself].
Surely an observers can observe its own physical self and use a mirror or video to observe whatever is outside its perceptual range.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am2. In general, Point 2 is moot in contra to the default in 1.
The observer is observing 'thoughts' that appear and disappear. And while these 'thoughts' appear as objects seen as they are being looked upon, the observer can know these objects looked upon are not the actual looker. So the idea of a self is simply an arising illusion of a self as a 'thought thing'Age wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 2:03 amSince absolutely every thing is relative to the observer, the answer/s to your question, here, would all depend on 'the observer', "itself".
Now, since the 'Observer', 'Itself', is already observing thy 'Self', then this would imply, or mean, that as the 'Observer' is observing thy 'Self', then 'It' does want to be observed.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'detached observers' Gary, sorry.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Nov 15, 2025 11:18 amGood question, really. Do detached observers who don't feel the joy or sorrow of those s/he observes observe anything as it truly is?
As qualified there is no permanent self, i.e. a self-in-itself or soul-in-itself that survives physical death.Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 7:36 amBut can the observer be located specifically to an actual location within it's visual field, except to say only as a temporal finite reflection, an appearance already within it?Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am1. The default of an Observer is to observe whatever is observable, thus including its empirical self [there is no soul-in-itself].
Surely an observers can observe its own physical self and use a mirror or video to observe whatever is outside its perceptual range.
Do you think using a mirror could point to the actual location of the observer? Can the observer be observed using a mirror? Or would using a mirror just reveal only a perceived image appearance already within the observer? The observer remaining hidden from view, as the reflection would be the only image seen, not the observer itself.
So can the observer observe itself. It could, but it wouldn't see anything, so I'm assuming it wouldn't care or want to focus on seeing nothing, rather, it would be more focused in on what is being reflected in the mirror. And yet, the looked upon image seen in the mirror, also sees nothing. Do you understand?
The observer then would hardly want to observe the observing simply because in doing so, this would cause the whole reflective imaged world to collapse the illusion of imageless images. The illusion would be seen through for what it is, which is nothing appearing as something.
When seeing it's image in a mirror, the human thinks it is the one looking at itself, and that the location of the seer is somewhere 'behind the eyes'. However, that's not what's actually happening, the human being is just a reflected image being 'looked upon', it is not the one looking.
These 'looked upon' appearances seem to be what creates the whole illusion of a Self that's real, and believable. So the want to wakeup from this dreamscape reality is to know recognise through the mirror reflection that the observer is nothing appearing to be something, the human only exists as an imageless image in a mirror, and that doesn't always feel comfortable for the human being, who believes it is the observer observing itself. An empirical self then, is simply recognised for what it actually is, that being a mentally constructed image made purely out of 'thought' and 'belief' and that there's nothing actually there existing as an empirical physical self. Yes, there's a physical body, but there's no empirical physical self animating the body from within it, or from outside of it. The body is simply an appearance within the observing, that cannot be located or observed as an empirical self.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am2. In general, Point 2 is moot in contra to the default in 1.
This is only theory though, as observed, physicality being nothing other than appearances and disappearances observed, or perceived.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am As qualified there is no permanent self, i.e. a self-in-itself or soul-in-itself that survives physical death.
- "In epistemology, he questioned common notions of personal identity, and argued that there is no permanent “self” that continues over time."
https://iep.utm.edu/hume/
You can observe yourself as a temporal appearance, which is actually constructed of sensation and thought.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 amGiven the above, surely you can observe yourself as an empirical self, i.e. the complete 'yourself' i.e. physical and mental as one whole that is not permanent.
The observer will be like a hurricane, river and the like that emerged from a combination of conditions, in this case with self-awareness can verify its self exists as a whole and as observer can observed itself as it is.
But, the 'Observer' observes other things, as well.Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 8:02 amThe observer is observing 'thoughts' that appear and disappear.Age wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 2:03 amSince absolutely every thing is relative to the observer, the answer/s to your question, here, would all depend on 'the observer', "itself".
Now, since the 'Observer', 'Itself', is already observing thy 'Self', then this would imply, or mean, that as the 'Observer' is observing thy 'Self', then 'It' does want to be observed.
That may well be what 'you', individually, 'observe', and believe. But, 'that' is certainly not what the 'Observer' sees, nor believes.
Again, the thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions within that one human body are never necessarily what is actually True, nor Right, in Life.
So, you observing human beings are identical to the cat, phone, whale, and mars that 'you' observe, because there is absolutely no division at all between 'you', an observing human being, and a cat, phone, whale, or Mars. Well according to the one human being known as "fairy", here, anyway.
So, every one 'must' agree with and accept that, 'All physical things are non physical', okay?Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 8:02 am Thus, observing has no actual physical location within, or without it's visual field because it's everywhere at once, it's infinity itself projecting finite images, infinitely for eternity. All physical things are non physical, made of sensation, which is also non physical.
Think what you like. I have no business denying you of your dream. Dreams are infinitely finite within infinity, difference where there is none.Age wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 9:29 amBut, the 'Observer' observes other things, as well.Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 8:02 amThe observer is observing 'thoughts' that appear and disappear.Age wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 2:03 am
Since absolutely every thing is relative to the observer, the answer/s to your question, here, would all depend on 'the observer', "itself".
Now, since the 'Observer', 'Itself', is already observing thy 'Self', then this would imply, or mean, that as the 'Observer' is observing thy 'Self', then 'It' does want to be observed.
Also, it is very, very, very rare for 'you', 'observers', to observe 'thoughts'.
That may well be what 'you', individually, 'observe', and believe. But, 'that' is certainly not what the 'Observer' sees, nor believes.Again, the thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions within that one human body are never necessarily what is actually True, nor Right, in Life.
Only when you produce a sound and valid argument for your claims, assumptions, or beliefs, here, is only when 'they' will be irrefutably True, and/or Right.
Until then 'you' are on 'your own', here.So, you observing human beings are identical to the cat, phone, whale, and mars that 'you' observe, because there is absolutely no division at all between 'you', an observing human being, and a cat, phone, whale, or Mars. Well according to the one human being known as "fairy", here, anyway.So, every one 'must' agree with and accept that, 'All physical things are non physical', okay?Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 8:02 am Thus, observing has no actual physical location within, or without it's visual field because it's everywhere at once, it's infinity itself projecting finite images, infinitely for eternity. All physical things are non physical, made of sensation, which is also non physical.
Why? Because the human being, known as "fairy", here, says and believes so.
A few lines will not explain the above issue sufficiently.Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 9:11 amThis is only theory though, as observed, physicality being nothing other than appearances and disappearances observed, or perceived.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 am As qualified there is no permanent self, i.e. a self-in-itself or soul-in-itself that survives physical death.
- "In epistemology, he questioned common notions of personal identity, and argued that there is no permanent “self” that continues over time."
https://iep.utm.edu/hume/
But is this observing 'permanent' or 'impermanent' though? Can 'permanence' be observed, if there's no permanence to observe?
You can observe yourself as a temporal appearance, which is actually constructed of sensation and thought.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 6:08 amGiven the above, surely you can observe yourself as an empirical self, i.e. the complete 'yourself' i.e. physical and mental as one whole that is not permanent.
The observer will be like a hurricane, river and the like that emerged from a combination of conditions, in this case with self-awareness can verify its self exists as a whole and as observer can observed itself as it is.
There must be something that is not a 'thought' or a 'sensation' that is observing every thought and sensation, right?
That space between two thoughts, between sensation felt, and not felt, must exist. This space, or placeholder, is not nothing, it is the interface by which something, namely, thought or sensation is known to arise and fall, appear and disappear.
That space must be permanent, seamless, and necessary for appearances to arise and fall, to be known, and to exist.
Think and dream whatever you like. you are also free to express those thoughts and dreams. But, if you can not back up and support those thoughts and dreams with irrefutable proof, then they will just remain only thoughts and dreams.Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 10:07 amThink what you like. I have no business denying you of your dream. Dreams are infinitely finite within infinity, difference where there is none.Age wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 9:29 amBut, the 'Observer' observes other things, as well.
Also, it is very, very, very rare for 'you', 'observers', to observe 'thoughts'.
That may well be what 'you', individually, 'observe', and believe. But, 'that' is certainly not what the 'Observer' sees, nor believes.Again, the thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions within that one human body are never necessarily what is actually True, nor Right, in Life.
Only when you produce a sound and valid argument for your claims, assumptions, or beliefs, here, is only when 'they' will be irrefutably True, and/or Right.
Until then 'you' are on 'your own', here.So, you observing human beings are identical to the cat, phone, whale, and mars that 'you' observe, because there is absolutely no division at all between 'you', an observing human being, and a cat, phone, whale, or Mars. Well according to the one human being known as "fairy", here, anyway.So, every one 'must' agree with and accept that, 'All physical things are non physical', okay?Fairy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 8:02 am Thus, observing has no actual physical location within, or without it's visual field because it's everywhere at once, it's infinity itself projecting finite images, infinitely for eternity. All physical things are non physical, made of sensation, which is also non physical.
Why? Because the human being, known as "fairy", here, says and believes so.
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