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Michael McMahon

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“Panpsychism is the view that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world.” - Stanford I feel a question which naturally arises from ...
December 21, 2020 at 23:25
Consequently visual reality would be comparable to a deterministic simulation that passively progresses along until it gets updated every so often wit...
December 21, 2020 at 13:58
Tracerdefinition: a device which transmits a signal and so can be located when attached to a moving vehicle or other object. “Somehow, even for a stra...
December 21, 2020 at 13:25
Mysteries like consciousness and wave-particle duality have been a prolonged problem. Even though everything we see is light, we can’t find a neat ana...
December 21, 2020 at 11:53
We seem to mostly rely on our sense of vision to interpret our surroundings; our sense of touch only provides information on objects beside us that we...
December 19, 2020 at 23:33
I miswrote that sentence: “Light... far-away object without us (the body) directly touching it.”
December 18, 2020 at 13:43
Consciousness has been a scientific mystery for a long time. I suspect it’s not just the structure of the brain that’s causing the confusion; maybe ou...
December 18, 2020 at 12:14
“In metaphysics, abstract and concrete are classifications that denote whether the object that a term describes has physical referents.” - Wikipedia T...
December 17, 2020 at 19:58
OK, I’ll quote a few sections from Banno’s Stanford antirealism link: “This diagnosis is arguably facilitated by van Fraassen’s... intimation that nei...
December 17, 2020 at 15:50
Dualism: “a theory or system of thought that regards a domain of reality in terms of two independent principles, especially mind and matter.” I reckon...
December 17, 2020 at 12:48
OK, below I might indulge in some of my own philosophical musings! The way I see it is that my living reality is real only to me. Someone else’s consc...
December 17, 2020 at 00:12
Irrespective of any spiritual undertones, antirealism would still be a great way of understanding the science of perception. So whether or not you thi...
December 16, 2020 at 20:45
The external entity doesn’t have to be where we perceive it to be, in objective time or absolute space, just because our senses are in alignment. Our ...
December 16, 2020 at 12:30
What I’m trying to say is that our perception doesn’t literally have to be “real” even though it’s based on a real outside world. Light travels in str...
December 15, 2020 at 22:12
“Seems to me, the main premise of “anti-realism” is, as it’s been expressed in the O.P., self-contradictory. For if by “objective,” it’s meant (as it ...
December 15, 2020 at 18:17
https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/images/GUID-90C14932-5903-4AA6-93F8-1DBF8E3ECB57.png Both images are 2D. It’s very easy to n...
December 15, 2020 at 11:26
The eyelids are like the screen that dreams are projected on. Projection definition: “The presentation of an image on a surface, especially a cinema s...
December 13, 2020 at 23:36
“Emission theory... is the proposal that visual perception is accomplished by eye beams emitted by the eyes.” When you think about it, any visual stim...
December 13, 2020 at 22:58
https://cdn-mos-cms-futurecdn-net.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CrvvEKHrkayTnkdg6kvs8K-1200-80.jpg The apparent decrease in width o...
December 13, 2020 at 19:17
“The thing that defines a panoramic image is the ratio. Like I said earlier the thing that makes an image a panorama is the fact that ratio of the ima...
December 10, 2020 at 12:33
“The uncertainty principle... (is where) the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory....
December 07, 2020 at 21:40
This would help explain why a 2D visual reality could appear vividly 3D.
November 27, 2020 at 22:25
It could be that depth perception occurs subconsciously rather than consciously because we’re relying on multiple depth cues together at once. We don’...
November 27, 2020 at 22:24
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-keqS7UBoFJs/T0A_jkBAZWI/AAAAAAAAAHk/4GCpseGixBI/s400/homunculus1.jpg It might be easier for a 2D visual system to fit insid...
November 27, 2020 at 15:38
https://www.radicalcentristmichael.com/post/anti-realism I wrote a small overview of this thread on that webpage.
November 24, 2020 at 22:52
“Your Color Red Really Could Be My Blue” Lets revisit that question to explore each option in the sample space. 1: My blue and your blue are very diff...
November 24, 2020 at 22:33
The imagery of dreams are still in colour without any actual light.
November 24, 2020 at 20:17
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/meadow-hillside-near-forest-night-tall-grass-mountain-top-coniferous-full-moon-light-57277297.jpg Light is indeed nece...
November 24, 2020 at 20:11
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/82/27/4e822700f45f09dd4b44857bdc572add.jpg Even a fighter pilot breaking the sound barrier might as well be travelli...
November 23, 2020 at 16:53
“the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s” Not only are we unable to physically move our body anywhere close to light speed, but light moves so fast tha...
November 23, 2020 at 16:41
https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/i69TjbVjLXGiSRQo37rY1ILxbV4=/1005x1005/smart/filters:no_upscale()/brain_senses-56ccf48f5f9b5879cc5ba0e6.jpg “The stimul...
November 23, 2020 at 16:03
That is to say light would seem to move at a constant speed irrespective of the illusory speed of the observer in a virtual reality setting.
November 21, 2020 at 19:58
I’ve already commented on illusory motion. Let’s elaborate on this virtual-reality headset comparison. Consciousness would remain in the same location...
November 21, 2020 at 14:57
“Epiphenomenalism is the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. Behavior is...
November 18, 2020 at 14:39
“Okay, the next feature of consciousness, after this marvelous unified conscious field, is that it functions causally in our behavior. I gave you a sc...
November 16, 2020 at 22:37
There’s no perspective in absolute time and space.
November 14, 2020 at 22:44
Can a universe be said to exist if there’s no consciousness inside it? Our visual perception of external objects would comply with the illusion of per...
November 14, 2020 at 22:29
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Worlds-Full-of-Lemons-by-Surrealist-Painter-Vitaly-Urzhumov8__880.jpg Fantastical surrea...
November 13, 2020 at 19:25
“Basically, relativity said that the laws of physics couldn’t depend on how fast you were moving; all you could measure was the velocity of one object...
October 28, 2020 at 14:32
In: Pantheism  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hBH4c3MAACA Pantheism is indeed a harmonious, pluralistic and tolerant belief. I think Pantheism can really square the c...
October 24, 2020 at 15:33
“A luminous object is one that produces light. A non-luminous object is one that reflects light.” - nbed website If we assume “all is mind”, then a co...
October 19, 2020 at 16:06
The idea of gravity arising as a passive result of perpetual motion may not actually be too outlandish. The extremely fine-tuned orbits may initially ...
October 18, 2020 at 22:09
A needle in a haystack: “something that is impossible or extremely difficult to find, especially because the area you have to search is too large.” ht...
October 18, 2020 at 19:46
Keep/hold your cards close to your chest: “to keep your intended actions secret.” Bluff: “To deceive someone by making them think either that you are ...
October 18, 2020 at 18:53
Pseudorandom: “ (of a number, a sequence of numbers, or any digital data) satisfying one or more statistical tests for randomness but produced by a de...
October 18, 2020 at 16:08
“However, the notion of seeing conscious choice work as a veto may be exactly what we need to focus on in order to stop engaging in nonconsciously ini...
October 18, 2020 at 15:03
“I recommend that you take a look at the entry on "Relativism"...” - magritte Thanks. Yes I will have a read of it. “Much of the human brain is arrang...
October 17, 2020 at 12:06
“The Arch itself obviously doesn't change in size. Depending upon how far away you are when you view it, however, it can appear to be very large or ve...
October 16, 2020 at 16:55
I’ll try to send those images again: https://hardinthecity.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/pans-labyrinth-monster-creature-eyes-hands.jpg https://educatio...
October 16, 2020 at 14:34
IMG_2738.jpg It sometimes feels as if our minds are located somewhere directly behind our eyes; that the nearby objects we see are closer to our locus...
October 16, 2020 at 14:30