We actually do not interact as human beings

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This is an explanation (argument) I was having based upon my compositions which were not actually compositions at the time since I lack the musical skill. But this argument gets my point across regarding this topic:

You may think that I have a retarded personality, but this couldn’t be any further from the truth. If there were a mentally and physically handicapped individual who had an awesome, hardcore, mystical, epic, etc. personality on the inside that you would really love, but he/she couldn’t articulate that personality due to his/her handicap, then it would be wrong of you to look at that person as having a retarded personality.

You as a human being can actually only perceive the version of me and others that have been created in your own mind. But you cannot actually perceive the real me and who these people really are on the inside since you are not them. Imagine how frustrating and infuriating it must be if you told a mentally and physically handicapped individual that he/she is a retarded person who deserves to die.

He/she would become someone like an anorexic. He/she would attempt to subdue his/her physical being that he/she loathes and detests since it does not match up with his/her inner awesome non-retarded personality. As a matter of fact, he/she might even become enraged towards life itself and anything else that does not match up with his/her inner personality.

So my point here is that I am currently like a mentally and physically handicapped individual when it comes to making music at this current point and time. But I have an awesome personality on the inside that you would really love that I was trying to articulate. But I am unable to articulate that. I thought I articulated it. But music that we think we hear is right and flawless is not reality.

It is only those musically trained who are professionals who would be able to see the blatant flaws in my “compositions.” I was unable to see them since I am obviously not a musical professional. But those who are able to see them would very well make comments such as that my song is silly or retarded and has a mediocre, silly, or retarded personality/feel to it. But since I was unable to see those flaws, then that song to me perfectly matched up with what was in my head and, thus, did not convey a retarded or silly/mediocre vibe to it. But that couldn’t be any further from the truth.

So once I get the necessary musical training, I will be able to create compositions truly how I hear them in my mind and they will turn out right this time. But even so, your interpretation of me and my music is your own interpretation. It is not the real me and nor will it ever be the real me since you can never know the real me. The only way you can know me is if you literally were an exact clone of me.

Therefore, we as human beings actually do not interact with each other. We only create imaginary mental images of the other person in our mind and interact based upon that image. Since we can never know who the person truly is on the inside, then all we are left to do is create these images. So you are only really interacting with an imaginary person in your mind that you created.

What we think and see is not reality. This not only applies to us creating these images, but also us interacting physically. What we physically perceive is not reality either. Everything is actually a random mess of particles and such and we as human beings are perceiving a gross interpretation of it. So with that being said, my summarized message I am getting across with all of this is that what you think and perceive is not reality. You do not know me. Therefore, do not be so quick to judge me.

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I said you were autistic, not retarded, there are high functioning autists out there who are not retarded. A retard for example would be like Peter Kropotkin, mr.reasonable, Zoot, Maia or Primal Rage and such.

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Logical contradiction.

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A form of logical contradiction is, for instance, an idiot savant. However, it isn’t a matter of the logic of the form , but rather, the form of the logic which predisposes it. (The contradiction).

The distinction is dubious for most, but tenuous for some. Why? I would not hazard an answer now, but
at a certain level, the distinction is only a conventional guessing game, or, based on trite jest-ure, or, pose-ture.

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Ref: P.C.F. Schiller, ‘Formal Logic & Logical Form’.

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No, an idiot savant is not a logical contradiction. it is an idiot who is only good at one thing, say mathematics or drawing, but idiotic in all other areas.

What Matt said was an actual contradiction.

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This is exactly where the distinction between formal logic and logical form becomes manifests. on the face of it, the idiot, and the savant are contradictory. This is the logic of language dictating, the logic of the formal use of language. however, as You point out, Trixie, this is NOT the case. The form of the logic its self, changes, when we adapt current uses of meaning to special cases. the above gentlemen may or may not fit into a definition such as the one posed, therefore, his unique sense of himself may rest on a different logic,more logic of differences,me hereby defining where he sets the bar. The usual logic of including the differences of similarly set conventional usage, may not work in his case.
case at hand, he may be defining his own sense of non-contradiction, via, that his aspirations may at one point or respond to his potentials.

I could have omitted the foundations here, but since this is the philosophy section, I wanted to give substance to the argument.

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The fact that the current OP does not fit into a category, is irrelevant for the purposes of the argument, since we do not know this to be the case, or even if an idiot savant may know more then just one thing in exclusion of all others. he may, for instance know math or math real matters, some of which have a tenuous dis-similarity or, a doubtful
similarity.