Our eye is not in 'physical contact' with ulexite either, and yet there's an image displayed on the surface. In the youtube video above, the light tra...
http://wonderopolis.org/wp-content/uploads//2015/01/1396_2.jpg A magnified image displayed on the surface. You don't look 'through' a magnifying glass...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=isPBecyaZYg Would you say ulexite is 'see-through'? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tpcrbkb2TiU/hqdefault.jpg Are you looking 'th...
This strikes me as the same sort of argument as "because we experience reflections, something must exist which is being reflected". I would say the mi...
All experiences seem to have this thing in common which is this sense of subjectivity, or 'being experienced by me', 'my sensations', 'first person ch...
There's tonnes more! Think of magnifying glasses, glasses you wear, curved glass, coloured glass, the reflections which are seen in glass, the wobble ...
Either your making an argument about word use (what's seen in the television screen is in sense an image OF the outside world), or you're talking in a...
No, that's not what I'm arguing. Look at the nearest pane of glass. This thread is about whether what's seen 'through' the glass are the very same obj...
I think it's a little (a lot) disengenious. The vast majority of suicides are by the severely mentally ill, the terminally ill, people who have experi...
If you run your hand up your arm you continue to exist and feel the sensation all the way up. Why do we not just die right at the start? That we don't...
Derivative of the phenomenology of of the past as well? I project backwards a past and think of myself as the same self now as was then. I think of my...
We could separate the two into say the human sense of self - which is a sort of ego with an identity and a collection of memories, and gains knowledge...
It's really hard to talk about a future lifetime which has nothing to do with this life, while in this life. I'd say it would be the same 'being' whic...
He was just a human like you and me, not some infallible god. And I'm pretty sure people were already doing this - to the very Buddha himself - while ...
If we imagine ourselves as just say, a collection of biological and physical processes (I don't actually believe this). The collection of processes at...
Pretty sure Mr. Sid was just utterly confused on this point. There must be personal identity through time if you come back into existence again reinca...
Because it would appear that there is personal identity over time. The very same 'thing' (I don't really know what word to use here, self? subjectivit...
What do you mean by "green" here? Do you mean it as in there is particular range of radiation wavelengths in the external world which the brain physic...
Because you are falling for the illusion! We know it's an illusion because of things like the bent stick in water illusion, or how warped glass distor...
Your brain doesn't actually know how far the light travelled from an object to the retina. The retina is just presented with a 2D image on its surface...
This is highly confused. Light from a physical object hits your retina, gets converted to a neuronal impulse which travels to the visual cortex... and...
So, refracted light waves reach your retina. The retinal rods and cones convert the refracted light wave into a neuronal impulses. The impulses travel...
Yes. White people can be Muslims too, Islam is not a race. And we DO know better. Homosexuality can be punished by death in Saudi Arabia. Surely you c...
So then you agree with me that clear things aren't see through? Suppose not. Yawn. Looks like once again Terrapin Station, you've made another argumen...
This theory is wrong. But regardless it entails representationalism (i.e. photons travel through eye to retina, rods and cones convert photons to neur...
What's this got to do with the phenomenology of glass? Spell it out. The argument here seems be, if some object has the physical property of allowing ...
No. You need to spell out what a physical description of light and transparency has to do with whether we can see through clear objects or not. The ar...
This is conceptualism, right? I wouldn't argue against this. Poor word choice on my part, I should have said our understanding of straight lines is ''...
As an aside, my way of understanding this illusion is that 'see-through' things (eg, water, glasses, glass, plastic, quartz, etc) are not actually see...
Well I've never seen the inside of my head and I doubt you've seen yours. It might seem silly but this is still theoretical. Our brains don't appear t...
Yeah, but we can understand mistaken perceptions without recourse to an external world. Illusions, hallucinations, etc (or even this idea of perceptua...
I don't see how that appears to be the case? We can't access this mind independent world, so where is the evidence? As in, what's appearing to us to m...
Yeah, the OP is an argument against the idea that your conscious experience is being caused by a brain. If there is a physical brain, independent of y...
Black people get stopped by police more often because they (on average) commit far more crime than other races. They don't get stopped because there's...
Okay but what we humans want to say and believe, is that the people we interact with in the world we perceive have conscious experiences. It is the ac...
So brain states = conscious experience, in he same way water = h2o? But it's hard to see how that could actually be, when one is a subjective lived ex...
So the colors in the world around you continue to still look the same even when nobody is looking at them? As in, we look *through* our eyes like they...
But this representative/indirect realism doesn't solve the problem. Because if the people around you are internal representations of people, then they...
I think a big mistake the Clinton campaign made was to campaign as if voting democrat was the *morally correct* thing to do. People really don't like ...
I wonder if the months of poll after poll after poll right up to the vote showing a comfortable democratic lead was just a function of a corrupt and b...
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