This article touches on a subject I have been intrigued by for decades. Everyday, posts are presented with viewpoints deemed by the authors to be the absolute truth. Too, we often hear each of us is unique. What passes as common sense for one is malarkey to another.

The author tells us:

Reading the works of such neurologists as Oliver Sacks and V. Ramachandran - it becomes clear that the variation in the human experience is very affected by our brains interpret the world around us, and this varies widely.

Being the concrete beings we are, I believe many people miss this. In a "what you see is what you get" world - where is the room to realize that what your brain "sees" when looking at an object, person, or situation, may be completely different than what my brain "sees"? And what presuppositions will that assumption cause you to make? http://www.psychologytoday.com/colle...presupposition

Two of my favorite quotes:

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ~Rene Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ~Rene Descartes

We each have perceptions and our own truths. Learning the perceptions and truths of others is critical to meaningful communication.