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I've never seen a case of schizophrenia that wasn't heart breaking in some way. It's a terrible disease.

There's a great YouTube channel where this woman talks to her audience while she's in the hospital, having a psychotic episode. You can tell when she ...

We're kind of stuck with our own worldview though. They used to think it was demonic possession, our poor capitalist selves call it schizophrenia. It'...

Direct realism means hallucinators are peeping into other dimensions?

According to my recent training, I shouldn't take this personally, but should remain rationally detached, recognize that your communication is influen...

Were you angry when you said that? Just curious.

I don't think that undermines the point, though. Hallucinations show that the mind can create experience. Once you notice that, reality will always be...

Did you know extra oxygen flows into your brain when you're angry?

Rationality isn't about helpfulness. It's about fashion. It's about adhering to justifications that are deemed proper by society in general.

Makes sense.

What would qualify as a constituent of experience? I'm drawing a blank.

Improvement in equality can happen in many ways. The Bubonic plague brought about greater equality because it killed off so many slaves. Those who wer...

I mentioned before that direct realism was Aristotelian. It said that our minds directly contact the forms in the things around us. Indirect realism w...

I think we're just disagreeing on language. I don't think it's very likely that the brain takes in sensory input and constructs experience out of it. ...

Yes, the model wouldn't be a representation. To some extent it's probably innate, but influenced in some ways by culture and language. The more I thin...

I was thinking that when attention is directed outward, toward the future, expectation may play a necessary role. Attention will mainly go to whatever...

Do you think it could be that we carry around models that are populated by sensory input? Not exactly a representation.

Are you saying that perception can't be passive? The hormone that deals with goal attainment is dopamine. It's probably the most powerful hormone affe...

Most of that capacity is actualized without the involvement of phenomenal consciousness, so it's not clear to me what this direct realist is saying ex...

:lol: Life is so hard sometimes.

I think whoever wrote that is ready to drink the coolaid.

I think you've identified one factor. If that's all there was, the art of identification would be unlearnable. But that is about interpretation of wha...

I thought troglodytes lived under ground and gypsies lived in little wooden caravans.

Is there a lot of bloodshed? I don't know what to say about that. Are they cannibals?

I can see you out there hiding in a cave from one of those desert tigers who evolved due to climate change. You're writing in a little journal about J...

So you're looking at a cow. Do you recognize it as a cow? Or just think you recognize it? Knowing that it's called a "cow" doesn't make any difference...

Do you just walk around with open arms welcoming it?

The Japanese have desalination plants, some for industrial use and some for the water supply. Where are the Spaniards going? Texas?

Yep

The NHS just shut down a trans clinic for gross negligence. No quality research has been done on the long term outcomes of providing surgery and hormo...

It's puzzling that I could have recognized the smell as something I'd experienced before. It might seem that the private language argument excludes th...

I predict the trans thing will be gone by 2050. Or mostly gone

By the way, I'm presently detecting an odor that I know I've smelled before, but I can't remember what it is or what it's called. I think it may be a ...

Whisper words of wisdom: let it be.

Cool. Did you know spiders don't have a blind spot because their eyes evolved in a different way.

Yes. Anyone who learns to draw has to learn this. This is what the mind wants to do: https://i.imgur.com/GHFBLeS.jpeg What's happening is that the min...

I've been a visual artist for a long time. I can put aside mental shorthand and tune into my visual field. I see color, light, dark, and lines. I can ...

Yes. That makes sense.

:grin: It's just one of those things.

I would propose that instead of trying to explain sight, let's first do a quick analysis of what we do with the concept of self: You saw a cow. You ta...

I understand the idea of seeing the tree by way of a representation, but like Michael, I would say that's indirect realism. I don't think it matters w...

This comes down to the nature of the self. I think what you're trying to do is eliminate the self along with the homunculus. Is that true?

Aristotle thought you could directly see ideas. Trees and cups are part idea and part physical. That framework, that we're all in the mind of God, is ...

@"Banno" Direct realism was a resident of an idealistic world where the mind directly contacts the forms of things. Indirect realism came into existen...

We're switching now. This excludes you, where the weather will be similar to a sauna most of the time.

Two updates; 1. We're switching to La Nina now, so the weather will be cooler than last year. 2. The US economy isn't showing any signs of slowing, so...

You're giving up on the integrity of the self over time. We usually assume it's one self and a flood of everchanging perceptions. You have the ability...

The indirect realist isn't denying this.

True. I once asked a neuroscientist why he believed he had access to the real world, and he said "practicality."

Practicality probably. Is that the source of the indirect realist's confidence?