“Panpsychism is the view that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world.” - Stanford I feel a question which naturally arises from ...
Consequently visual reality would be comparable to a deterministic simulation that passively progresses along until it gets updated every so often wit...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“In metaphysics, abstract and concrete are classifications that denote whether the object that a term describes has physical referents.” - Wikipedia T...
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...
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...
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...
Irrespective of any spiritual undertones, antirealism would still be a great way of understanding the science of perception. So whether or not you thi...
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 ...
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...
“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 ...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
“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....
It could be that depth perception occurs subconsciously rather than consciously because we’re relying on multiple depth cues together at once. We don’...
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...
“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...
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/meadow-hillside-near-forest-night-tall-grass-mountain-top-coniferous-full-moon-light-57277297.jpg Light is indeed nece...
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/82/27/4e822700f45f09dd4b44857bdc572add.jpg Even a fighter pilot breaking the sound barrier might as well be travelli...
“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...
https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/i69TjbVjLXGiSRQo37rY1ILxbV4=/1005x1005/smart/filters:no_upscale()/brain_senses-56ccf48f5f9b5879cc5ba0e6.jpg “The stimul...
I’ve already commented on illusory motion. Let’s elaborate on this virtual-reality headset comparison. Consciousness would remain in the same location...
“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...
“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...
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...
“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...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hBH4c3MAACA Pantheism is indeed a harmonious, pluralistic and tolerant belief. I think Pantheism can really square the c...
“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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
“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...
“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...
“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...
I’ll try to send those images again: https://hardinthecity.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/pans-labyrinth-monster-creature-eyes-hands.jpg https://educatio...
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...
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