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Your Perception is Flawed

Matthew Huntley
Nov 7 · 4 min read

“Perception is like painting a scenery — no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.”
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

What if everything you knew to be true was, in fact, not. What if the shapes, colors, smells, and textures that make up the tapestry of your life were no more a part of objective reality than the…

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    Matthew Huntley

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    Biologist, father, aspiring writer

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