My interest in philosophy reaches back to my childhood, and the beginning of adolescence. Perception the way we see the world has and still does interest me. Originally this text was started to solve a problem I had encountered and could not find a solution for. It was how to get from cells to atoms; how to get from something alive, to something that is not. For some time I just had no clue, could not understand it how to get from the one to the other. Now I do not know the exact number of steps, but that problem has been solved.

I'm writing this text out of interest and for fun, and in fact I'm walking through the last 24 centuries of logical atomism on my own. I prefer to think things through, rather than read it in books and make it easy on myself. This text and all previous and future drafts, are as such a work in progress.

Influences

This text is a rework and possible adaptation from logic atomism as described by Bertrand Russell and Democritos, amongst others. It is about Perception Philosophy, but information from other disciplines is included as well.

There will be many sources I am not aware of, so I note my respect and the fact that I'm influenced by many philosophers, scientists, artists and others including: Descartes, Russell, Wittgenstein, Aristotle, Plato, Hume, Erasmus, Charles Darwin, Jarred Diamond, Umberto Eco, Ken Richardson, Isaac Asimov, Boethius, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bertrand Russell, Democritos and so many others. In fact If I had to write them all down, all those I know and don't know about, then that part of the text might be as long as two pages.

A list of books read will be included at the end of this part.

From reading other texts it has become clear that this kind of philosophy is seen by some as heresy as its accept psychological and neurological evidence. I only find that natural. Our physical appearance is part of the world we live in.

Skepticism is another possibility, but it has its problems. If one follows that pathway, then in the end the situation in which one finds oneself, is a situation where what one reads and sees cannot be accepted as true. You can't be sure that it is true. The problem with skepticism is that you encounter the problem that you cannot be sure that what you read is what you have written down, and that you do not dream that and in extremism, one can ask himself if his/her thoughts are real also? Then the conclusion that you know nothing is indeed correct.

And ultimately also not what you think and do, and you could/can do nothing, which if I'm correct, would mean that nothing could be built by humans. Not even the keyboard I'm using to type. The problem with skepticism is that if you extend this, then not one fact can be proved scientifically, because how can one then be sure that those facts are also not fictitious?