If consciousness were equivalent to empty space then it'd feel like your visual consciousness literally moves forward when you look at something in th...
If dreams can be perceived as visually real to our consciousness while lucid dreaming then why don't we have the focus to become lucid in every dream?...
"(An) anti-realist can come in a number of flavors. As always the out and out anti-realist might just (be) a skeptic. Or an eliminativist is the term ...
For example there are lots of different regional accents and colloquialisms within the English language that convey slightly different emotions and bu...
Some of our subconscious metaphysical beliefs are non-verbal. I interpret some of my free will and decision making in an analytical way but there's st...
A dream is like a remix of a song where events in our past are mixed together randomly and then played out to see what would've happened under differe...
Come to think of it I could probably take off my glasses and I'd feel like I was watching some 1970's video. I'm short-sighted and I'd be like one of ...
Understanding why a dream was irrelevant still requires use of your critical reasoning skills. That is to say in order to understand why it's irreleva...
Evolution is cited as a materialistic and deterministic explanation for the creation of species. But then is psychological romance also a mentally det...
"Diffusion is the net movement of anything from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration. Diffusion is driven by a gradient...
What if our mind moves our body in a similar way to a dancer trying to rhyme their motion to the the beat of music; except for us our body moves relat...
If you know one depth value then you can work out the rest of your perception to the same scale using familiar size. For example you know the objectiv...
If we're looking in a slanted direction towards an entity then the distance we're see is the hypotenuse and we can infer the depth by approximating th...
Each of our eyes has a different degree of perspective since different parts of an object right in front of us will be closer in diagonal depth to one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVxomcRgEuo Pulp Fiction 1994 - Wolf Notice how the lower camera resolution in older movies doesn't always detract fro...
We're all living different lives. So how do we know how closely our conscious timelines are located to each other? For all we know another conscious m...
"So if I'm doing the flipping, then the mirror is not. Take an arrow and point it to the right. The reflection in the mirror goes to the right. Point ...
The image in a mirror is unusual because an object looks to be in the same location but it's horizontally facing the other direction. If our conscious...
If the scene we see in our brain is really a virtual image then when we look in a mirror the objects should actually be the proper left-to-right orien...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization What is the connection between depersonalisation and religiosity, spirituality or mysticism? In an ext...
We measure the length of objects relative to standard quantity such as a metre and not the amount of space it occupies in our vision. I couldn't tell ...
An infinitude of time would mean that if the multiverse were random like the Boltzmann brain scenario then a deterministic system like our universe is...
How could a deterministic system become random or vice-versa? That's the dilemma at the heart of quantum mechanics. Usually infinities and infinitesim...
Maybe it's possible to create different competing versions of scientific antirealism depending on which variables(s) are perceived in an immaterial wa...
Panpsychism where photons are equivalent to our qualia could bypass the combination problem of consciousness because our visual perception of external...
The chaotic, random quality of the beat distracts our attention from all of our previous thoughts such that we are more receptive to the lyrics whenev...
I was thinking more to myself about dualism. We could distinguish between two types of dualism: spatial dualism and temporal dualism. Spatial dualism ...
I watch a lot of these driving and walking videos of foreign cities on YouTube when I'm bored. An easy way to visualise a stationary observer appearin...
"e = 0 The coefficient of restitution exists as a number between 0 and 1. In a perfectly inelastic collision, the difference in the velocities of two ...
https://www.bardweb.net/language.html Shakespeare is amazing and ingenious at all aspects of the English language bar concision! Nowadays we have a ve...
We don't see matter with our eyes; we see light. How matter and light relate to each other is not fully certain.The atom is made mostly of empty space...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4xYacTu-E (6minutes 40s mark) The pencil attracts the Earth a few trillionths of a proton. (10minute 40seconds) Ther...
An astronaut dropping an object on a spinning asteroid might perceive it as falling diagonally to the ground. Under this way of analysing gravity the ...
I think we're individually, subjectively observing an objective, shared reality. That is to say there's a physical world out there but we don't percei...
When we learn to draw as children we're tempted to leave a white gap between the sky and the ground. Then the teacher reminds us that they meet at the...
You'll have the same initial centripetal velocity as the Earth's surface when you're about to jump and at maximum height off the ground you'll have a ...
The top of the cliff would be objectively travelling faster than the bottom of the cliff because velocity is proportional to radius. The relatively sm...
Astronaut dropping feather and hammer on Moon: https://thatsmaths.com/2018/02/15/galileos-book-of-nature/ Centripetal velocities from the Earth’s dail...
I’ll try to be more mathematically precise without getting bogged down in calculus! So the impression I get from Euler’s force is that it would be lik...
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