Some of the most basic questions and statements elicit the greatest discussions.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Does art imitate life?

Or does life imitate art?

Seemingly simple inquiries that stir up a flurry of answers.

Researchers that alike almost everything else in this world rely on one thing, perception.

The response to these queries is often dependent on the person you ask.

In a world that urges black and white, more often than not, the grey area is where many

of us reside.

Take the parable of the blind men and the elephant.

In it, a group of blind men heard a strange animal, an elephant, had been brought to their

town.

And none of them were aware of its shape and form.

Out of curiosity, they said, we must inspect it and know it by touch, of which we are capable.

So they sought it out and touched it.

The first person whose hand landed on the trunk said, this being is thick like a snake.

For another, whose hand reached to its ear said it was like a fan.

Another man, whose hand was upon its leg, said the elephant is a pillar like a tree trunk.

While yet another placed his hand upon its side and said the elephant must be like a wall.

And the one who felt its tail, described it as a rope.

The last man, feeling its tusk, stated the elephant is that which is hard, smooth, and must

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