One challenge for anti-realism how to reconcile an immense sight like a mountain range as being visually internal. We usually don't have any problem w...
The orbit of an asteroid around the Sun is circular and so the upward or downward components would also be circular. We could use an analogy of a roll...
Euler Force Examples: Let's go back to the analogy of the rotating asteroid. For the sake of simplicity we'll just assume that it had a rectangular cu...
A possible counter-argument to gravity as a Euler force is that satellites remain in orbit even though there's no atmosphere to affect it and there co...
Dualism doesn't always have to include the brain being conscious. For example we could rephrase the mind-body problem as the mind-matter problem. If w...
If we were to forget about gravity then your natural tendency would be to stay still since there's no external force according to Newton's first law. ...
If planets were kept in place by perpetual motion whereby loose asteroids passively escaped the solar system then it wouldn't matter that stars in the...
Newton solved gravity by uniting the force on Earth with the force between planets in the solar system. We were then left with hundreds of years tryin...
We've to remember that according to Einstein space is relative and so the up and down directions don't exist without presupposing gravity is already i...
I once experimented with altering the velocity formulas where I measured seconds per metre rather than the usual metres per second. In this case lengt...
Sadomasochism: "the derivation of sexual gratification from the infliction of physical pain or humiliation either on another person or on oneself". Is...
A dream could function just like the way music rejigs our time perception. Each instrument has a different flow of time. The emotional tone of a dream...
I often find dreams with a theme of outer space to be really mystical. For example someone could have a dream where they're floating between stars. Th...
If every neuron has been damaged at least once throughout the entire history and catalogue of brain injuries, then consciousness can't be dependent on...
If consciousness is fundamental then it might be computationally simpler for evolution to create a conscious being rather than a philosophical zombie....
I sometimes make these embarrassing arithmetic mistakes where I don't know whether to include the first or last item. For instance I was on an interne...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQiNBfgBvoY Numb - OFFICIAL TRAILER An interesting movie about feeling detached from life. When we're knocked off our ...
Yet another version of anti-realism could be that empty space is 3D and objects are 2D. In this frame of mind objects in our vision would be separated...
Nature worship isn't always reflected in religion directly but the environment can still serve as small incentive for spiritual enthusiasm. Tibetan me...
How do drugs affect our emotions? A drug like alcohol is more than a placebo in that it has an intense and immediate effect on our state of mind. Alco...
Ion: "an atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons." Not only are biological cells made of chemical...
One way to think of it is that when we close our eyes we see dark phosphenes and that when we open our eyelids we see the exact same phosphenes except...
The photons we see with our eyes are quantum entities and the tactile sense is ultimately based on innumerable collections of atoms. Therefore our per...
There is a subtle difference in energy and vibe between the times of each morning mass and the evening masses. I remember going to a dawn mass for Eas...
"Science currently knows of no causal mechanism or connection whatsoever that explains how firing neurons cause conscious experiences, or vice versa. ...
If our view of the ground is obstructed we can still use the slope of the floor in front of us to project in our imagination how far it'd take for the...
Further objects are seen as higher than closer objects even if they're on level ground due to the apparent rise of the ground when it's viewed from he...
If our visual perception was oriented more in one half of the brain than the other, it'd still have to be projected to our conscious mind in a way tha...
"To cut right to the chase: the viewing experience that you have with a curved television isn't much different from what you're used to. Rtings states...
It's possible to interpret the sense of touch as being entirely proprioceptive and internal. When you touch a hand railing on the street then the tact...
My brain is far more complicated than the thoughts popping into my mind. Likewise the unconscious mind could be more complex than our immediate consci...
"Because of the Doppler shift, as a moving source approaches a stationary observer, the observed frequency is higher than the source frequency. The fa...
"Electrons belong to the first generation of the lepton particle family, and are generally thought to be elementary particles because they have no kno...
Likewise the shapes of atoms are probabilistic and multidimensional which would be far more complex and unrecognisable than the colourful shapes our m...
"At an energy of 7 TeV, the protons are moving at 0.999999991 of the speed of light." -LHC Machine Outreach If the mind is equivalent to photons of li...
Thank you for your good explanation. I was approximating "mind" to mean colours, phosphenes and photons and then I was trying to make "physical things...
How is perspective related to parallax? The further out an object is the smaller it gets and the less background it occults/blocks out. So a far-away ...
My updated blog intro: Here I wonder about the scientific implications of anti-realist philosophy. What would unreality entail for our sense perceptio...
Only the first-person character in a video game has free will arising from the input of the hands on the controller where the other characters will mo...
"If Earth suddenly lost all of its gravity, we wouldn't just start floating. The lack of any forceful gravitational pull would turn humans – and anyth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vuRPqzcH54 Eiffel 65 -- I'm Blue (Mister Perfect Remix) I remember years back I went through a stage of listening to ...
Hedonistic and rebellious pop songs can sound even more energetic and intense when it's remixed in another language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j...
Maybe a panpsychist point of view would be that light has colour qualia even before it hits your eyes while a materialist however would say the photon...
If consciousness is located outside the body then it'd be movable instead of being in a constant location within the brain. Therefore the mind could a...
If our own visual screen of all the objects in front of us is larger than the size of our head and yet still remaining equivalent to our consciousness...
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