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I've wondered about this for a long time, and the phrase "in the eye of the beholder" always comes to mind. Even if our sensory organs are all of the same type, and scientific instruments can be used to make precise measurements, who can say that the connections between our eyes and brains are wired up all the same? There's such diversity in humanity, I seriously doubt that I see exactly what you see, and that we interpret it the same way in a kind of universal understanding. Isn't that what art is all about?

It would be interesting to devise an experiment that would determine the answer to the question, but first I must finish my perpetual motion machine.

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