Personal Perception

The outlooks of others, in the real world as well as online,  vary from the way things appear to me so consistently that I have to wonder, more often than is comfortable, if I haven't, as James Joyce put it in his "Ulysses," grabbed the sow by the wrong teat, in every respect.

I keep being rescued by the thought that, though we believe we can conceive of the outer reaches of the Universe and we believe that our kind has devised instruments  that enable us  to see that far, every person's brain is actually a prisoner shut up inside a space hardly bigger than a grapefruit, so that even the most enlightened and intelligent of us  cannot even see, directly, the backs of our own heads.  Consequently  all our sensibilities are limited to the personal perceptions we have, and, if we are not complete robots, those perceptions are the only realities for us, and we act mainly in accordance with those, and that's  legitimate,  outside of outright criminal activity.

But that brings on another question.  Have the boosters of Intelligent Design been right all along, except that the Designer, whoever it or they might have been, designed, built, and set into motion not what are thought of as being "people" but are vast armies of self-propelled robots instead?

This would explain all the incomprehensible undertakings  slopping over into what otherwise would be the insane, that can be found all over the planet, starting with the pyramids in Egypt.