You said: I replied: ... The argument should be obvious: we don't see the atoms and molechules of a coin, so there is nothing to interpret as a coin p...
. So what would seeing its atoms and molecules be an interpretation of? :-} I don't think you see the atoms and molecules; it is not your interpretati...
What is interpreted? We might interpret the presence of a silver oval in our visual field as a round coin. But we don't get to interpret its presence,...
Indeed, especially scientific accounts based on arguments from illusion, according to which you'd never see a real colour, only your own hallucination...
Good point. :) ..but then isn't also the range of wavelengths analog and dense...i.e. between two identified wavelengths there is always a third. Henc...
It would take time travel to unlearn something already learned. If they want you to learn and use their methods instead of your methods, then would yo...
Hearing a sound can be like seeing a photograph of the past. As such it functions as a symbol in which you can recognize things and events of which yo...
The impression of the depicted strawberries might be grey-blue, but the meaning of the expression "they look grey-blue" is the colour of the picture, ...
Heidegger confined himself to the standards of nazism, and perhaps he thought it was a duty. But I think it was bad judgement evoked in a bad society,...
To be conscious of something amounts to having one's attention directed towards it. How a biological organism can have its attention directed towards ...
God is a religious concept. Why would you consider whether the word 'satan' is evil? Can a symbol of evil be evil? I don't think so. For example, we c...
Hologram or simulation of what? If it is a hologram or simulation of reality, then it is a hologram or simulation of the reality in which we live. It ...
Disregarding the many unwarranted assumptions and assertions in the OP (e.g. that nature would be an agent) I believe there is some philosophy to be d...
I'd say Satan is a religious concept, not philosophical. Baudelaire's "philosophical" claims have little to do with philosophy. Instead they were deli...
I guess it will be something like when older industries became obsolete and abandoned. When we run out of oil some industries and places will be aband...
Why would you leave out logic, morality etc. from a physical world? Are you thinking that a physical world would have to be some kind of a dense lump ...
Strange, because usually obscurity inspires people to imagine more, not less. Fiction thrives on it even. Can imaginations be wrong? What is an exampl...
Knowing that red is used in different ways in different cultures helps us understand what it's like to see red in different contexts. I think you ascr...
Oh really. But 'to imagine' is what I said, recall. The fact that "seeing" is a metaphor does not make its use appropriate, nor innocent, in a context...
There are other things to perceive than physical objects, such as socially constructed objects, which are not so physical, nor are they imagined; they...
But when we imagine seeing something we don't really see anything. That's why it is called 'imagination'. Are you assuming that the world would be mad...
I would describe the colour indirectly, by referring to its effects on people who can see it, by how they use the word 'red', describe things in which...
As long as the blind share our background capacities and language there is little that prevents them from understanding descriptions of colours and im...
Right, the harmful effects of something contagious and invisible to the naked eye was identified long before knowledge of the existence of germs and v...
There is a decisive answer to the question whether we're brains in a vat, recall. We're not brains in a vat, because if we were, then not only would o...
Looks like it contains fallacies of ambiguity, such as two different senses of 'world' used in one sense: worlds you could be in. Or different senses ...
What a dizzying idea, but an enormous number of simulations won't increase the likelihood of other things being simulations. Even in a universe replet...
He says that the entire universe is a simulation, in which it is assumed that there isn't anything outside the simulation. Or he is misusing the word ...
Look, a simulation requires that there is something to simulate. If the entire universe would be a simulation of someone outside the universe "running...
The entire universe cannot be a simulation, because there must be something left, say a second universe which is real, and of which our universe could...
You might be interested in this book: Fear of Knowledge (2006), by Paul Boghossian, in which the idea that knowledge and reason would be fundamentally...
I don't think so. Reason is not a product but the capacity to make sense of words, beliefs, or perceptions, and as such it is not exclusively human. A...
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