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WRITING PROJECTS
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SELECTED PIECES
 

Exploring the Limits and the Future of Human Perception

a book by Paul Rebhan

Bubbles of Perception is a book that explores the limits of human perception and how those limits affect our ideas of logic, reason and all other phenomena.  It can be understood as both a type of of anti-philosophy and as a manifesto of Rebhan's ideas relating to his creations.

The book explores how all of humanity's explanations and theories about subjects like life, the cosmos, science, logic, mathematics, philosophies, religions and everything else are unprovable and baseless.  It explains why the very concept of proof is illogical and, in turn, why logic itself  is illogical.  It explains why there can never be any such thing as a "final answer", "absolute truth" or "irrefutable fact" in any question, subject or situation.

Combining findings from areas such as cognitive science, psychology and physics, and re-examining the "foundations" of logic, this book shows that no matter how carefully they are examined, our experiences, thoughts, imaginations, and even our ability to perceive reasoning are trapped by the mental prison of human perception.

The book provides a brief, concise and easily readable introduction to this subject, that can be appreciated by the general public and scholars alike. It introduces new ways to reconsider age-old philosophical questions and to reinterpret many contemporary issues, revealing unusual insights along the way.

Bubbles of Perception concludes with a short discussion of how our perceptual limitations could be dramatically expanded by transforming ourselves into a post-human species.

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SELECTED REVIEWS

"Rebhan untangles complicated issues using simple and clear explanations. You are left feeling enlightened." 
Alex Birnbaum, The Editors' Club

"Very Interesting!"
Uri Geller

"A delicate, lucid method of describing what I always believed was indescribable."
M D Ransom, playwright

Garage Sale of the Mind is a short play written by Paul Rebhan and first staged in the summer of 2006 by director, Jayanti Patel.

The play uses an allegory of a man who wants to get rid of the junk inside his mind by having a garage sale.  This junk is comprised of negative thoughts and emotions that have accumulated over many years.  In the process of trying to sell this junk to various customers (including a wise extraterrestrial), we see that the man never needed to keep these things in the first place.  He chose to fill his mind with this junk, and over time, these negative thoughts and emotions provided him with a sense of identity.  Will he be able to shed all this junk and clean out his mind?

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Extraterrestrial:
"Cash?  What is that?  Wait....yes, now I remember from my ancient history lessons.  Money was the device used by some people to make other people suffer.  People actually charged money for things that nature provides freely.  Do you really still use money on Earth? I didn't quite realize you were that primitive."
 

Photo from the premier stage production
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