Thursday, September 19, 2013

Mirror Paradox and Subject-Object Reversal

Mirror Paradox and Subject-Object Reversal

Chinese Zen (Chan) Buddhism started with ignorance of "Mirror Paradox." Why is a mirror image laterally reversed? The seer is "I" and the seen is "me." And that "me" is isomorphic to "you." But, when I look into a mirror, am I looking at "me" or "me" is looking at "I"? No, "you" are looking at "me." Existential subject-object reversal.

http://journeymanphilosopher.blogspot.com/2008/07/mirror-paradox.html

http://www.umaine.edu/jmb/archives/volume11/11_1_1990winter.html

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