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Michael McMahon

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“If an object is placed inside the focal length of a concave mirror, and enlarged virtual and erect image will be formed behind the mirror. The cartes...
July 26, 2021 at 21:16
Yes your entitled to your point of view. But many stars appear not just younger than they truly are but also in a different location to wherever they’...
July 24, 2021 at 19:42
The speed of light number accidentally came up as link in my last post. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone had the speed of light as their own phone numbe...
July 24, 2021 at 18:24
“This constancy of the speed of light means that, counter to intuition, speeds of material objects and light are not additive. It is not possible to m...
July 24, 2021 at 18:14
https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/images/blogue/2018/2018-06-29-13-superbes-sites-facebook.jpg A distant star illuminates the vast empty space directly betwee...
July 24, 2021 at 05:14
If something isn’t material then it can logically only be either empty space or else temporal and spiritual. So free will could be view as a temporal ...
July 23, 2021 at 20:22
People say that physical determinism is the most objective stance. Determinism might lend to a stoic attitude of accepting our faith. We can’t control...
July 23, 2021 at 20:08
Indeed. Although doesn’t this disparity in our thresholds of perception hint at elements individuality in our senses more so than materialism? “Habitu...
July 22, 2021 at 19:45
Temperature is multifaceted. Infrared radiation is heat even though its technically invisible light. Pressure and convectional currents are the more t...
July 22, 2021 at 19:31
One way of looking at it is that people could speak long before the invention of writing. Therefore many of the mental constructs we use are based on ...
July 22, 2021 at 19:18
There isn’t the same qualia problem for our sense of touch as there is for colour vision. My red might look different than yours. Athough a red apple ...
July 22, 2021 at 17:40
If we were each living in a world of our own, then there’d be 7•9 billion unique perspectives within our planet’s population!
July 21, 2021 at 21:35
If colour is internally emitted then the multicoloured phosphenes would neutralise at a black colour as black absorbs all light.
July 17, 2021 at 17:44
https://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/are-black-and-white-colors The darkness of our eyelids contains all colours while we’re asleep!
July 17, 2021 at 17:37
Maybe we don’t actually lose consciousness as such during sleep; we forgo a sense of continuity.
July 17, 2021 at 16:51
During sleep we are detached from reality and disconnected to our body. We lose awareness of bodily sensations like touch and balance as we drift asle...
July 17, 2021 at 16:48
When I was at the beach lying down as a young child I noticed I could see these pulsating specks in the bright sky if I stared for a prolonged period....
July 11, 2021 at 22:34
If you are identical with your perception then the syntax and semantics guiding your very next thoughts relative to your previous thoughts can indeed ...
June 27, 2021 at 04:15
How would an altered rate of perspective affect our sense of motion if we had some contraption of lenses or somehow changed the flow of time? Were obj...
June 15, 2021 at 17:33
One way to investigate the effect of depth perception on anti-realism is through cinematography. Can different camera lenses alter not just how the mo...
June 14, 2021 at 19:55
Some senses are more indirect than others. Therefore our relative awareness of them might affect how solidly or spiritually we view reality. The sense...
May 22, 2021 at 18:24
Our mindset changes as we age so whatever is causing free will would have to be continuously updated rather than it being endowed once at birth. Dream...
May 18, 2021 at 14:14
In: Pantheism  — view comment
There’s many layers to this world and we can go however deep we want. There’s an interpersonal level to pantheism of merely trying to feel connected a...
May 11, 2021 at 16:34
If time is infinitesimally continuous then everyone would be gliding through time at infinitesimally different rates of time. I disagree! The universe...
May 06, 2021 at 14:39
One way to think of colour is that the sensation is infinitely complex. If that were the case, then no two areas have exactly the same colour. So even...
May 04, 2021 at 17:01
When we’re close to a mirror where our head is in the middle we can move our eyes to look diagonally through it and see much further behind us in that...
May 01, 2021 at 15:07
Or for all we know the image on the mirror is actually the real size of the object and it’s our own perception that’s arbitrarily enlarging objects to...
April 30, 2021 at 17:44
The mirror we see exists inside our own mind so to speak.
April 30, 2021 at 16:39
As the mirror moves back it gets smaller itself due to perspective from your point of view and so your image remains the same size even though the fie...
April 30, 2021 at 13:52
Anyone who spends enough time admiring themselves in a mirror should know the answer to that question!
April 24, 2021 at 08:30
If our image on a mirror is somehow always the same size then wouldn’t that have to apply vice versa where the mirror is moving instead of us moving? ...
April 24, 2021 at 08:27
What would happen if we viewed the brain as purely physical; as though it’s simply where all of the sentient memory is being stored? Then your conscio...
April 07, 2021 at 20:50
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Needless to say that there can be an absurd element to the world sometimes. An infinitude of time is incomprehensible. Who knows what belief system hu...
April 06, 2021 at 06:49
Dualism might appear to be more usually associated with free will. But what would happen if we instead combined dualism with determinism? Then our vis...
April 05, 2021 at 13:47
We can wonder if colour is spatially real when it applies to material objects. It’s not like a more vivid shade of blue alters the density of that sub...
April 03, 2021 at 01:04
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Another motive for believing in heaven is not just eternal happiness but also the hope that we can see our deceased friends again. I interpret reincar...
March 31, 2021 at 18:17
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Panentheism: “the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it.” I think pantheism and panentheism can be two sides of the sam...
March 27, 2021 at 10:20
Even if we can’t directly observe the physical actions of someone’s consciousness on their materialistic neuronal brain, we can always discern the aft...
March 24, 2021 at 17:25
“In terms of length, the average brain is around 15 centimeters long.” If the world were like a projection in our brain where our eyes are somehow in ...
March 20, 2021 at 13:59
It’s quite easy to distinguish a flat 2D screen from it’s surroundings as it’s small and lacks resolution. But our retina has a much higher resolution...
February 18, 2021 at 12:31
Light travels so fast that it’s unaffected by the curvature of Earth. It’s only under certain circumstances of massive stars that there’s any gravitat...
February 14, 2021 at 13:28
“Past research in experimental psychology and human physiology showed that perceiving the vertical and the “up” direction is based on multimodal integ...
February 14, 2021 at 13:10
Other people have a different perspective than you; both metaphorically and literally. If someone looks at a scene and then moves away so that I can l...
February 10, 2021 at 19:41
We often think of perspective as being epiphenomenal because it obviously has no effect on physical objects. Changing your sightline relative to a mov...
January 30, 2021 at 22:38
“Objects at a distance appear smaller because the visual angle they subtend becomes more acute with distance. The visual angle may be thought of as a ...
January 14, 2021 at 15:05
Free won’t is the inverse of free will whereby we’re selecting a certain action indirectly. We’d be failing to act on all other possible actions which...
January 11, 2021 at 20:21
We don’t have full control over our subconscious mind even though it’s an inherent part of our awareness. Dreams seem to be internally created by the ...
January 10, 2021 at 23:08
In a dream we’re able to move about and appear to change location even though we’re physically stationary. If this concept were extended to waking lif...
January 09, 2021 at 15:21
“Réné Descartes proved this in the 17th century by setting a screen in place of the retina in a bull’s excised eyeball. The image that appeared on the...
December 25, 2020 at 16:03
“A force can be considered a push or a pull upon an object. It can cause an object to speed up, slow down, change the direction of movement, remain in...
December 23, 2020 at 15:23