“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...
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’...
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...
“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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Indeed. Although doesn’t this disparity in our thresholds of perception hint at elements individuality in our senses more so than materialism? “Habitu...
Temperature is multifaceted. Infrared radiation is heat even though its technically invisible light. Pressure and convectional currents are the more t...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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....
If you are identical with your perception then the syntax and semantics guiding your very next thoughts relative to your previous thoughts can indeed ...
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...
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...
Some senses are more indirect than others. Therefore our relative awareness of them might affect how solidly or spiritually we view reality. The sense...
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...
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...
If time is infinitesimally continuous then everyone would be gliding through time at infinitesimally different rates of time. I disagree! The universe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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? ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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 ...
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...
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...
“Past research in experimental psychology and human physiology showed that perceiving the vertical and the “up” direction is based on multimodal integ...
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...
We often think of perspective as being epiphenomenal because it obviously has no effect on physical objects. Changing your sightline relative to a mov...
“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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
“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...
“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...
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