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An example of a constituent of that experience to be more precise. I’d like to avoid equivocating between “experience” as an occurrence or state of th...

I don’t know what a “constituent of the first-person phenomenal experience” is, and whether light it one or not. Can I have an example for the sake of...

Then let’s try a different object of perception: the light that has bounced off an apple. How does one indirectly perceive the light bouncing off an a...

I believe we have indirect visual perception of apples through the direct visual perception of light. This shouldn’t matter because the problem of per...

Again, perception isn’t limited to the visual, as you’ve conceded. Yet you keep limiting it to the visual. While I’ve long conceded that I cannot visu...

So if you consider visual perception indirect because there is distance and other objects between apples and the eye, how do you describe perception w...

Perception isn’t just visual. Do you agree or disagree?

Yes, and many sense organs can touch apples. But indirect realism says we cannot directly perceive the mind-independent world. That includes light and...

The deep state’s political hits against DNI Gabbard have returned, which indicates to me that she’s directly over the target. Classified Whistleblower...

You believe you can’t see the real world. Bizarre.

X is the mind-independent world. Contact with it is constant and immediate. One cannot disprove that with false analogies, formal hocus-pocus, and ima...

I have been arguing that we have direct perception of the mind-independent world, of which apples and light are constituents. You cannot evade this fa...

These are images generated by users, not the company. It’s weird that they wouldn’t want to go after the guilty people, but aim it towards Musk. https...

I don’t know, I’m not going to read it. Your guy is a failed disc jockey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Blundell I haven’t defended anything. In ...

You’re linking me to substack articles from a Canadian anti-Trump propagandist. Are you the author? The story from Axios and NBC is far different: htt...

French cybercrime units have raided the offices of X in relation to Grok's Holocaust denial and explicit deepfakes. Grok is artificial intelligence. M...

Not in my view. It just means that there are other things between us and the apple. We perceive those too, and in fact much of what exists in our peri...

Sure, but it isn’t indirect perception of the mind-independent world. So you agree with direct perception of the mind-independent world, which is cont...

Over here many use the term “commie” in the pejorative sense to describe basically anything left-of-center. My use of the terms wasn’t necessarily a d...

Ain’t that the truth.

But you said “That's exactly what it implies: that the Light is a data medium between the object and your eyes. That would be data derived from your s...

It’s true; Europe has grown dependent on the US for many reasons, most of which is the American government’s fault. Good or bad, living generations of...

Are you saying light is sense-data?

Do you disagree with me? It shouldn’t matter, in any case. Light is mind-independent, a “distal object”. It is through the direct connection of the li...

According to the definition you provided, light is a distal object, an “object in the real world”. If the “proximal stimulus” is the “stimulation”, yo...

It will be in physical contact with our senses, just as the apple will be when we pick it up and eat it. But you can’t know any of this because you ca...

Fair enough, Javi. No offence meant to you personally. But in the same vein, American politics ought to be irrelevant to Europeans, yet here we are.

Light is not a “distal object”. So beyond the “proximal stimulus” there is no light? You’re repeating phrases, that’s it, making distinctions where th...

Is light not a “distal object”? We directly perceive light. Light is a member/instance/object of the mind-independent world. Therefore, we directly pe...

The species hasn’t evolved much in the last couple hundred years, I’m afraid. Yet you keep electing people who want to take a large part of your incom...

1. I don’t really care 2. That’s not entirely true. According to everyone’s favorite, the SEP: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-problem S...

Spain colonized the Americas. Spanish is the most widely spoken language on this side of the pond. Do they not teach history there?

Not with our eyes. There is light and space in between the apple and the perceiver. What is the light and other mind-independent mediators supposed to...

Why did the British laborer run to the industrialists for jobs in the first place? Because of the “enclosure acts”; the government dispossessed the pe...

I’ve already shown that I have never have conflated the two. I’ve explained that the directness of perception is the contact between the environment a...

We’ve already gone through this weeks ago. But you interjected about your belief in “images” before falling back into bad faith when you were asked to...

It looks like the Minnesota government is finally cracking down on the shitty behavior of the usual suspects. https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/polic...

Alexis de Tocqueville came up with a good little concept called “soft despotism” that I think describes well the Western condition. We are fed the ill...

Contextomy is a fallacy where you rip a phrase from its context in an attempt to distort the meaning. You can tell from what I wrote after the phrase ...

I’d be interested in understanding what ulterior motive lies behind their promotion. What do we stand to lose if we lose these concepts? I suspect it’...

I have never argued that we can directly perceive an object unless there is contact with the object, for instance touching it or eating it. And I don’...

I would be seeing the light reflected from the intact apple before I see the light reflected from the disintegrated apple. In any case we don’t need t...

I perceive the objects themselves. I don’t perceive images. I don’t know how else I can answer your loaded question. Everything seems to be the exact ...

There is new video out of Alex Pretti which displays an earlier confrontation with ICE. In hit he spits at officers, kicks their vehicle enough to sma...

In my experience? I don’t see any images, mate. Perhaps I have aphantasia, or whatever it’s called, but I am absolutely ignorant to what you’re talkin...

Do you mean the Trump Organization has benefited? That’s a business that has been around for 4 decades and has over 10,000 employees. I understand tha...

You have all the facts so it should be easy to explain, but you cannot even describe where this images are located, what these images look like, or de...

You’re supporting crime. If Trump took out Hitler there would be riots. There was people out there protesting when he took out Maduro. This is what an...

I believe neither of your two options. Why do you think we see images, take images into the head, or create images/representations, when neither of th...

Don’t you think it’s still a little premature to start making predictions given that them rest of the haven’t panned out yet? I’m still waiting for yo...