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Sure, but the probability we're hallucinating goes down quite a bit when all (or most) of our 5+ senses agree that a thing is really there and happening. If it
by kleer001 9y ago
Sure, but the probability we're hallucinating goes down quite a bit when all (or most) of our 5+ senses agree that a thing is really there and happening. If it weren't we wouldn't have lasted long in the real world.
- pilooch 9y agoLet's minimize the loss
- tpeo 9y agoArgument from redundancy? Nice.
- QAPereo 9y agoHallucinations are the addition of something which isn’t there, we work more by heavy filtering. We see a narrow slice of EM radiation, what we see is at best, only part of what is real. That doesn’t imply magic, but it does about the incompleteness of our senses.
- kleer001 9y agoThere's also distortions that can mess up our evaluations of the world. We've got some majorly flawed equipment, but it still seems to work just enough so enough of us can reproduce.
- coldtea 9y agoThat presupposes what it's supposed to prove.