As embarrassing as it is to admit, I am a casualty of the "selective attention test". I knew that there would be some sort of trickery involved, so I attempted to be clever by counting passes by both the people in black clothes and the people in white clothes. This, of course, only furthered my obliviousness to the gorilla. I pride myself on my awareness and my attention to detail, so it is always a bit disgruntling when I fail those dastardly tests.
As far as what we discussed in class on Friday, it is a fact that 100% of our understanding comes from "in here". It's funny--I think about this matter fairly often, but, now that I am trying to organize my thoughts via text, I am having trouble getting the wheels turning. That's what I get for waiting until Sunday night to do this, I suppose... Anyways, when it comes to an issue like "reality" itself, one could chase their tail indefinitely with no avail. In order to avoid the never-ending loop of abstract hypotheticals that this topic can bring about, I'll end simply with this: there is a certain subjectivity that coincides with consciousness. That is, what any given person knows to be the world around him/her is nothing more than a construct, fabricated by his/her own mind. Albert Einstein was once asked if the moon is really there, even when no one is looking at it (or monitoring it in any way). He said "of course it is", undoubtedly shocked by the preposterous question. When asked to prove it, however, he was unable to. Or so the story goes.
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