For me, it's really simple: when I was a little kid, I thought I opened my eyes and there was just -the world-. Later, I learned that I open my eyes a...
Sure you can compare them. Not only can you, you SHOULD. You should be able to clearly articulate why confidence in one thing is more reasonable than ...
I don't think it's some sneaky rhetorical tool. The dictionary defines it in ways that have nothing to do with gods. Do you think your narrow use of t...
If someone says "I believe X", it makes sense to me to say "X is incoherent, so I'm gonna go with not-X". But in any case, indirect realism doesn't ne...
There might not be any coherent conception of directness. I don't understand why that would be a point against indirect realism, rather than direct re...
what kind of distortion are you talking about? For example I don't think it's necessarily the case that an indirect realist MUST agree with the distor...
And if you're okay with direct realists just assuming that they're perceiving the world as it is, you should be equally okay with indirect realists ju...
I don't see that direct realism really gives you absolute certainty either. A direct realist thinks they're directly perceiving the world as it is, an...
Why is it invariably a no? Why is it inconceivable to imagine a machine that can swim pretty much like other swimming being swim? We already have mach...
Yes but the important question isn't "is it like that now?", the important question is, "Is that necessarily the case in principle?" Is it in principl...
Presenting someone with a correct definition will look like quibbling to a person who is using the word a different way. It's not like the AI describe...
There's a lot of philosophy about this, it's normally anti-materialists who insist that all materialists must consider consciousness epiphenomenal, ac...
I wouldn't know, I haven't made a single comment about textures this whole thread. I wouldn't suppose that representational or UI views of perceptual ...
oh, I guess to me that's pretty much fundamentally what "faith" always (or almost always) means. Faith in your family and friends, but also religious ...
I'd even go a bit further than that. I haven't looked at most of the evidence for the scientific statements I believe. If you put in front of me most ...
A lot of people like to set science and religion apart as of they are direct enemies, and religion is based on faith and science has nothing to do wit...
At the very least, it's fairly easy to prove that *most philosophers* are realists about the world https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/al...
Just to clarify exactly which part of the Molyneux Problem page I'm referring to : I think that's super fucking interesting, because it goes against m...
I agree that it seems non arbitrary, but I was a little bit surprised to learn that blind people who later gain sight have literally no expectation of...
Yeah, I don't think the phrase "perceive the world as it actually is" is a meaningful sentence as well - perception is always inherently from a perspe...
Yeah, I see why you would. Some people are only having a discussion on the semantics of what it means to "see", and other people aren't, or at least a...
Talking about time travel as a realistic scientific possibility seems... far fetched to me. But I do love conversations about different models of time...
I think it's an important distinction. The experience I call "blue", the qualia if you will, doesn't have to be assigned to the things I assign it to....
That's a good question, but seems incredibly unlikely to me. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/we-all-experience-smells-differently-from-one-a...
Ah, let me rephrase. I meant that second part to not be referring to the entire process of smell, just the part of the process where you're consciousl...
No, I didn't say it bears no relation, it's certainly correlated to some subset of the actual chemicals in the air around you (a subset because you ob...
yeah, if anything smell seems more acutely to be experienced in a way that's entirely distinct from reality-as-it-is even than sight. Smell is ENTIREL...
Actually, I've thought about it a bit and I do have something to say about the semantics: I think it makes sense why semantically you would say "I see...
That just turns it into the semantic debate, which I don't have any comments on. I only disagree with direct realism to the extent that it says we see...
it's certainly more clearly and sensibly worded than what he did say, and was the first interpretation I would give to it, but the problem with how he...
I don't know why he's assuming indirect realists want or demand direct realism to be true. I think this framing of the conversation has so far only se...
If by "literally green" you mean "literally the qualia green" then I can't say, you'd have to ask a direct realist. If they just mean "the outer shell...
I try to avoid that argument altogether. I really don't care to argue what someone means, or should mean, by "I see x". My position in this thread is ...
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