Quote Originally Posted by crazedrat View Post
right. but that is only if you are thinking of it abstractly. it already exists, perfect, when you look at the world. its just that we don't have names to describe it completely fleshed out. furthermore, as the names we do have became fleshed out they would not be overturned, but simply expanded on. the sun would still be a ball, it would just be a flaming ball.. etc.
it is impossible to abstractly model specific information in such a way where you merge the abstract and the specific. this is true because the definitions of abstract and specific innately make this impossible. instead you would simply look at reality and see that it is already modeled for you; and that the conclusion is in front of your eyes; and that this model is neither specific nor abstract, but that it simply exists.
there is nothing specific about reality unless you have an abstraction from which to view the world. the word specific implies the existence of an abstraction.
so as you look at the world you can think to yourself "everything is different in some way", but only if you are accepting that things can be the same. the truth is that everything can be both different and the same depending on how you view it. for this reason it is impossible to say "there are infinite possibilities in reality"; this is only true in light of you viewing the world as finite. if you are viewing the world as infinite, then things appear finite. you can take one thing, and look at it in a million ways.. or you can take a million things and look at them in one way.
Reality(the model in which you are referring two) and the abstract model though are two different things. Yes reality is a model that we understand with our own eyes. But when you start believe something that someone else wrote because its based on a system, you do not come to truth. Also, perspective is a subjective thing. Subjectivity isn't objective. Its not like its going to work from all universal perspectives.