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Michael McMahon

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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...
September 30, 2021 at 14:36
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?...
September 29, 2021 at 17:43
"(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 ...
September 28, 2021 at 16:13
For example there are lots of different regional accents and colloquialisms within the English language that convey slightly different emotions and bu...
September 26, 2021 at 00:45
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...
September 26, 2021 at 00:22
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...
September 25, 2021 at 15:37
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 ...
September 25, 2021 at 04:44
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...
September 25, 2021 at 01:26
Evolution is cited as a materialistic and deterministic explanation for the creation of species. But then is psychological romance also a mentally det...
September 25, 2021 at 00:46
When we vividly remember an event from weeks ago it might feel like our consciousness hasn't moved spatial position between now and back then.
September 24, 2021 at 03:14
"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...
September 22, 2021 at 02:49
What if the brain itself isn't conscious but that it's perceiving your own consciousness through the senses?
September 21, 2021 at 20:05
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...
September 20, 2021 at 10:50
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...
September 20, 2021 at 08:17
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...
September 20, 2021 at 08:07
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...
September 20, 2021 at 07:59
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...
September 19, 2021 at 02:44
Maybe it's possible to combine both options where our perception is in front of our face while our rational thoughts are behind us.
September 18, 2021 at 01:46
Is someone's consciousness invisible and in front of their face in an undetectable manner? Or is it hidden from view behind the face inside the brain?
September 18, 2021 at 01:42
If our visual perception were entirely in our brain, then the further out we look the deeper we are seeing into our brain,
September 15, 2021 at 13:29
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...
September 15, 2021 at 13:03
"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 ...
September 13, 2021 at 13:43
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...
September 13, 2021 at 00:34
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...
September 12, 2021 at 22:26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization What is the connection between depersonalisation and religiosity, spirituality or mysticism? In an ext...
September 09, 2021 at 20:51
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 ...
September 09, 2021 at 20:22
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...
September 08, 2021 at 19:59
How could a deterministic system become random or vice-versa? That's the dilemma at the heart of quantum mechanics. Usually infinities and infinitesim...
September 08, 2021 at 15:25
Maybe it's possible to create different competing versions of scientific antirealism depending on which variables(s) are perceived in an immaterial wa...
September 07, 2021 at 23:05
Panpsychism where photons are equivalent to our qualia could bypass the combination problem of consciousness because our visual perception of external...
September 02, 2021 at 20:06
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...
September 02, 2021 at 18:36
Only light from our eyes and sensory nerve impulses from the body penetrates the skull.
September 02, 2021 at 16:47
I was thinking more to myself about dualism. We could distinguish between two types of dualism: spatial dualism and temporal dualism. Spatial dualism ...
September 02, 2021 at 16:37
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...
September 01, 2021 at 16:44
"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 ...
August 30, 2021 at 22:47
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...
August 30, 2021 at 00:50
What if our perception is a simulation but it's based on a real physical reality?
August 29, 2021 at 00:35
That way light would describe everywhere the matter isn't located which we can use to infer where the matter is hiding.
August 26, 2021 at 11:19
An electron emits a photon when it moves into another orbital. In other words when it jumps across empty space in the atom it releases light.
August 26, 2021 at 11:15
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...
August 26, 2021 at 11:12
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...
August 25, 2021 at 11:00
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 ...
August 25, 2021 at 10:35
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...
August 25, 2021 at 10:29
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...
August 25, 2021 at 10:19
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 ...
August 25, 2021 at 09:54
The mass of the object is negligible in comparison to the mass of the rotating surface.
August 21, 2021 at 16:43
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...
August 21, 2021 at 16:24
Astronaut dropping feather and hammer on Moon: https://thatsmaths.com/2018/02/15/galileos-book-of-nature/ Centripetal velocities from the Earth’s dail...
August 21, 2021 at 15:35
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...
August 21, 2021 at 15:05
Perhaps an analogy is where the ground moves under you like a treadmill as you walk passively forward!
August 21, 2021 at 02:45