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That would be a hallucination, which no is not real.
by gnaritas 11y ago
That would be a hallucination, which no is not real.
- MCRed 11y agoSemantics. But then, this is hacker news, intelligent discussion gets downvoted or hellbanned.
- gnaritas 11y agoYou can't claim semantics as an escape hatch in a discussion hinging on the meaning of a word. And if one can't object to the use of word like "real" in this context, then it wasn't an intelligent discussion to being with. In intelligent discussions people are more careful with words and always open to being more precise.
- DanBC 11y agoHallucinations are real, they just don't have physical sources. MCRed seems to be talking about paredolia, which is very different from hallucination.
- gnaritas 11y agoThat a hallucination is occurring is real, that which you hallucinate, i.e. perceive, is not. You aren't seeing a real dragon if you hallucinate a dragon, and that's what real means in this context.