Talk:Perspective Manipulation/@comment-92.16.122.39-20121230145746/@comment-92.16.122.39-20121230161448

"Is other powers really exist as they are or they just come from the perspective of man? For what I know, none of them is the product of reality, they are exist as we perceive they are."

Yes, you are right.

"Of course there is a true reality exist, the problem here is that we cannot perceive it. Everything we perceived is based on our perception only. So this power is useless in the world where everything can be perceived as their true self. But in fictions and our reality right now, all is just subjectivity."

"I didn't say you are wrong. In fact, you are completely right, a thing's nature is independent from what we perceive.. [snip]"

I see, actually, your answer was quite helpful and I see where you are coming from and starting to agree with you. Let me explain how I see it right now just to clarify things. For simplicity's sake, let's assume that a thing has two fundamental things it's Nature, for example in case of a rock it's very rockness and it's Image, which is the thing others perceive and interact with. It can also be seen as an "interface" to the Nature of the thing. Usually the Image and the Nature matches each other more or less, however if one were to change the Image (via Perspective Manipulation) a rock would behave and interact with others in a completely different manner (let's say it was turned into a dragon). In essence this means that with PM you can indeed do anything.

However, it also raises a number of interesting points related to PM. Let's say we have a power of True Sight(or whatever, but it allows you to see the Nature of the things rather than the Image), it would completely counter PM. Also if Perception is the basis of all reality as we know it, beleiving in something hard enough is enough to change reality, at least for ourselves (And, yes, it is true to some degree in real life, I know!), basically faith alone is enough to achieve almost anything.

Finally, let me thank you for this civilised and entertaining conversation.