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Old 07-04-2009, 05:48 PM
Jeff M Jeff M is offline
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Originally Posted by Howard Klepper View Post
.. Every way anyone knew the rock was there relied on perception.

Boils down to "perception" again. Or, as a physicist would say, "observation".
Schroedinger's cat once more.
Does the cat exist in some half dead/half alive state until you perceive it to be one or the other?

The rock, observed or not, is either there or it isn't.
You can't make it go away by failing to perceive it...just as you can not will it into reality by "observing" it to be there (as somebody suffering from schizophrenia might.)

Swinging back to the subject at hand....
Either a guitar opens up, or it doesn't.
A person may perceive that it has when it hasn't...or not notice when in fact it has.
Their "perception" is what matters to them...but it may in fact not be based on reality.

Buying a guitar based on the belief in the sales persons line of "when it opens up..." or others assertions that all guitars open up in x months to such an such a degree is a recipe for disappointment.
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