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>> Tuesday, May 31, 2005
When we read a book... the first thing we require is to get hold of the character we r reading about... it may be the protagonist or even any side character. For example take the case of Harry Potter... if u have read any of the books, u will remember he has green eyes... did u see him, of course not, it is a image we have built up in our mind and for this the author is responsible. There may be other examples... have u ever read Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes? In the starting pages we get to know Holmes himself by Watson's description... it was an image created in his eyes tht was transferred into ou mind... the same thing happened with any client who came across Watson or Holmes. But the image of Watson was created in the reader's mind by his own thinking and assumptions. In any case my point is that before we proced to read a book we must be acquainted with the main characters either by the author's description or by our own imaginations.
From books we come to real life... does the same thing happen here?yes... to some extent because when we claim we know a person, it simply means we can imagine the person in our mind. But there is a difference the image tht is created in our mind may not be the same as created in someone else's mind... because in this case there is no author who is transferring the image from his mind to ours. But does tht mean sombody is wrong somwhere? may be not.
In a simple way... we can comapre the whole thing to a cascaded if-then-else statement. dont u think so. depending on the situations... reactions... the end result varies. But may be this is the simplest analogy... reality is much more complex. more so because sometimes the "conditions" remain same but the "statements" change gving altogether a new result.
