Why? Impossible! Seriously, is that even possible – taking ourselves out of the equation? Don’t see how. Your filter is you because you, everyone, need to order the stimuli you are facing, ignoring, interacting with… in order to have a reasoned response. You will always be part of your equation, the challenge is how to make all that make sense, especially if you aren’t the ‘subject’ or ‘object’ of the (fill in the blank). Then again, maybe self-awareness is the filter’s filter.? Somehow we all need to put in proper perspective our needs, wants, desires, preferences, etc. with the focus.
When you think about this another moment… why would you even want to eliminate you from your equations? Putting aside the question of whether this would even be possible, why eliminate you? I think the issue really is to put ourselves in context, not as center. It’s the ‘center-ist’ thinking that causes problems. And yes… we do need to consider how the stimuli effects us and then what we want to do with the information, BUT we don’t need to place us as the center.
Whether or not we acknowledge and or like it… we all live in the box of our creation. First – that isn’t necessarily bad because it gives us a starting point. However, if we reject everything and everyone that doesn’t neatly fit into our box then we are doing a disservice to our own personal mindset as well as the object that caused us to disregard it. We all have a need to order our world so that we can make sense of all of the stimuli.
But if all we look at is ourselves then our world is extremely small. You are the filter, granted. But… since we are all fallible then we need to have an expanded view of life, discoveries, people, etc. or we fall into the trap of selfdom (and I realize I’m coining another new word). You are PART of the equation but you need to always look outside the box you’ve created, to allow yourself to be challenged and to expand the perimeters of your box.
