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> upside-down on the retina due to optics This is completely arbitrary when you think about it. Why would the physical orientation of the brain and its inputs
by jimmaswell 4y ago
> upside-down on the retina due to optics
This is completely arbitrary when you think about it. Why would the physical orientation of the brain and its inputs necessarily have to have any correlation with anything? You don't expect it to have any meaning whether you plug in an HDMI cable vertically or horizontally, or what direction your RAM chips face. If someone turned your brain sideways or upside down while keeping the "cables" in tact you wouldn't even know it.
- namero999 4y agoWell, there's nothing I disagree with in your statement, but am also not sure how to fit it within the previous exchange. OP was implying that, because there could be cases where the description of a phenomenon contrasts with the direct experience of it (such as the image being "flipped" due to the law of optics), then we are always deceived. I disagree with that characterization because either we say that mind always deceives itself (I can work with that statement) or you can't exclusively point out world views and beliefs, because in those cases we don't have a physical representation to contrast them with, therefore it's a non-sequitur.
- jimmaswell 4y agoI guess it doesn't contradict what you've said, but one of the tweets from the author of the main thread does repeat the cliche that our vision "should" be upside down because of the eye thing, which I've seen repeated a lot.