The Truth of Perspectiveism, Maturana.

 The Truth of Perspectiveism, Maturana.



"The observer is the source of all things. Without the observer nothing exists. The observer is the basis of all knowledge. The basis of all claims concerning man himself, the world and the universe. The extinction of the observer is the It will mean an end and annihilation, for there will be no one left to perceive, speak, describe or explain."


- <<From Being to Doing>> Maturana


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Someone is watching something. Marurana says this is a fundamental starting point.


The person develops a world of his own as he sees it as an observer. If the other person exists as an observer, then the other person's world exists, and as an observer, the world that that person sees also exists.


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The philosopher Nietzsche, before Maturana, described this as perspectives. If the term perspectives is difficult to describe, you can borrow the term from Maturana and call it 'observers.


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Snakes are creatures of a different world from humans. This is because snakes perceive the world similar to an infrared camera. The snake world is divided into living creatures that have warmth and those that do not. Then it can be said that the world of snakes exists just as the world of humans exists. In the end, there are as many different worlds as there are observers. As such, it is impossible to have one objective world, the 'only real world', to which all humans or all living things can agree. If we agree with this reasoning, it is easy to despair that we are beings caught up in our own views, as if we were in prison. But is this despair really justified? Do we have no way out of this despair?




Fortunately, humans are not the only evolutionary history that all living things go through. Along with the slow history of evolution, there is also a history of civilization shaped by human imagination. Humans are not beings passively driven by evolution, but beings that can lead to evolution. Glasses can be said to be a symbolic example of this point. Through glasses, we have two worlds. It is the clear world that is revealed when you put on the glasses and the faint world that you see when you take it off. In this respect, glasses are not just a tool, but an important medium that can change or elevate the human perspective. Through glasses, we have a different world than before.




In order to be given glasses to humans, the science of optics was necessary.




"The glasses are nothing more than the materialization of the theory of optics."


- Bashar



Bachelard described the process by which science such as optics shakes and overcomes everyday ways of understanding with the term 'Ecliptic Disruption'. Because of this disconnection, which leads to a new understanding, human history, unlike other animals, has been able to exist. This is because history cannot exist in a time that lasts without a fundamental break. Interestingly, the religious and false dichotomy between the false world and the real world cannot enter history. This is because history is a place where only the dynamic creation and creation of the old world and the new world breathe. So history is precious. History shows both the evidence and the possibility that we can have a world different from the one we have been given.


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As long as I exist as an observer, the world I see exists, and as long as others exist as observers, the world that others see also exists. Who is seeing the real world?


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Everyone wears their own glasses. We need to ask ourselves what it means to see while looking at the glasses, and what the novelty of wearing glasses means. As observers, we are inseparable from the world we see. In this respect, Mathurana and Nietzsche are entirely correct.


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Unfortunately, we are trapped in our own world. However, through the new imagination symbolized by glasses, we can have hope to escape from our own world. This is why the distinction between the old and the new that the new imagination brings is more important than the distinction between the real and the fake. This is because, through a new imagination, we become different observers than before, and we can obtain a new and unfamiliar world that is different from before.



Today, now, at this moment...


The time to encounter a new world can only be created by me.

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