Reality through Filters

 Our conceptions of the world/reality is always through various kinds of "filters". This is as much true of groups of individuals/society etc as it is about how individuals perceive the world . You see this everywhere from finance ( risks that are ignored at certain points in time are given excessive importance at other times and vice versa) to society ( what's accepted as reality or what's accepted as OK/not ok changes dramatically in a decade or two) to everyday life.

In other words, the mind has a certain set of basic beliefs at any point of time which we put together to form more complex perceptions. Change one or two of those basic axiomatic beliefs and our perceptions change dramatically. its partly also because in many cases, we cannot know the whole reality so to speak, so we use these filters to form heuristics to form a conception of it. (But even where objectively we can decipher with a bit of effort , we end up using this heuristics) in other words, what we see depends upon HOW we see it. And what you know now depends upon what you knew before now, as we keep updating the filters. Knowledge itself, it seems is path dependent...

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