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Predictions are overtly conscious and intentional on the events, movements of objects or functional processes which are uncertain in their results. It...

Predictions usually happen when the result of some events, movements of objects or processes are unknown to the predictor. But in visual perception of...

Do you mean that we never see a real cup of coffee, but images of constant steam of information from your memory, which is a hallucinatory state of pr...

A very interesting and detailed post on the topic. Thank you. I will read it over, and get back to you, when I have some ideas about your points. The ...

I didn't say Hegel's idea was absolute truth. I found Hegel's term "inner impressions" for seeing images in dreams interesting. In Hume impressions co...

When I was in sleep, I was seeing a tiger. When I was awake, I recalled the dream of a tiger. They are both images, not words or sounds.

I think I have tried to clarify the points enough from my side. There is nothing much more for me to add here. You seem to keep going around circle of...

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Yes, this is it. The thing in-itself which is impossible to know or something unimaginable is what we hope to find out.

Yet again, isn't Hallucination totally different way of seeing non existent objects? You see images of the objects which are existent or non-existent ...

Checking out you knew or not, that is the work of reason. Reason itself is not truth. It is a very peculiar way of putting down your own definition on...

A detailed and good post on the topic. Thank you. However, the OP was more interested in discussing and find out the nature of the visual images we se...

I saw a tiger in my dream. I do vividly remember the image of the tiger, so that I can even draw it on a piece of paper how it looked. It is a visual ...

Truth emerges when your belief or knowledge is examined and verified by reason. Reason itself cannot deliver truth as you claim. You should trace back...

It is not a physical organ, but conceptual and functional organ. All your thoughts, feelings, emotions and senses i.e. the bundle of perceptions are y...

We were not talking about truth here. We were talking about whether your knowledge or beliefs were rational or irrational. For that, you need to verif...

Seeing images in your dreams and making predictions are totally different things happening in your mind. They are not the same activities. Seeing some...

I didn't combine anything at all. I just chose words to make up sentences. Anyway, it is not the same thing as seeing the images in your dreams.

You could, but if it is irrational, then others will not agree with your justification. Being rational means also it has to be objective. Your problem...

It is a bit strange that you seem to acknowledge the existence of God, and creation of the universe and humans by the God. But at the same time you de...

Your problem seems to stem from conflating mind and body at times, and then looking at mind and body separate entities as you go along. Constancy and ...

If mind believes in God, after life, resurrection, the heaven and hell etc, then it needs to postulate the existence of soul or spirit, so that it wil...

I am not sure if the emergent mind is not real. It is utterly real in that it knows, observes, feels, predicts and feels. How can the mind be not real...

You should be very careful not to be deceived by the word democracy. It could mean, that you must do anything irrational to justify the word. It would...

Religious beliefs always have been from the blind faith rather than anything to do with being rational or irrational. And at the time, when the religi...

Any reasonable person would want his / her beliefs, knowledge, actions or perceptions to be rational than irrational. No one wants to have beliefs, kn...

Combining image 1 and 2? doesn't make sense to me. How do you combine images? Combine something means mixing something. To mix something you must add ...

Seeing a tiger attacking you in your dream is "seeing something" i.e. seeing an image and motion. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with making p...

Why is the emergent mind not real? What do you mean by "real" and "not real"?

Asking for grounds or justification for your belief, knowledge, actions and perception is not Formal Logic. It is just a rational thinking process for...

Seeing something means there was an object in the physical world, which came into your retina in the form of lights, and activated your neurons and co...

So you must be an atheist and materialist, is it correct? If you are, of course that would be your view. But there are spiritual and religious folks w...

Let say, you are seeing a wall in front of you. You see the rows of bricks piled to make up the wall. But you also notice, the wall is level with the ...

Images in dreams are interesting in the sense that, the dreamer sees images that don't exist in the external world. Where do the dream images come fro...

If your body has lost all the contents of your memory let us suppose, but it still functions biologically. Would you be able to know then, your body i...

Could it be because body is temporal? As we all know, bodies get old, die and becomes dust. Bodies don't last too long.

Surely the concepts of souls / spirits have existed for thousands of years. If you are religious believing in after life, resurrection or the heavenly...

Does it imply that our perceptions are not direct? Could there be other factors involved in perception apart from the the object of perception, sensor...

In my dream one night, I was flying a light airplane over the night sea. In real life, I don't know how to fly airplane, and never plan to learn to fl...

Could sounds in dreams might interrupt the dream, and make the dreamer wake up from sleep, therefore you subconsciously switch the volume off during d...

Do you mean then souls / spirits are something that we apply to the illusion of being? That sounds like souls / spirits are illusions.

No, I cannot see M or TS in there at all, but then I have never looked at their facial features of the eyes and nose closely before. I tend to look at...

That's a very creative image. But I don't see TS and Madonna in it at all.

I know body exists confirmed by the mental (perception and thoughts - "Here is a hand. Here is another hand. I have two hands."). But souls? How do yo...

Definitely not. You have your memory to back up your dreams have factual coherence from the past. Time and space are regarded as external entities by ...

Can different images be amalgamated into totally different another image? Who do you get if you amalgamate images of Elon Musk with Bill Gates, Taylor...

No one was suggesting to be 100% formal logic, Formal logic is a subject which studies propositional validities, which can aid human thoughts and scie...

Didn't he say, it is the constant conjunction of the one event followed by the other, which gives us the idea of cause effect? Really? Could you come ...

Formal logic deals with the propositions for their validities. Suggesting formal logic as your standard of rationality sounded very odd even as a cond...

How about when we perceive silence, emptiness in space or time passing? The objects of our perception actually don't exist in material level. However,...