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Your eyes are telling you what color that shade of red is on the wall. But if you put it next to a different color, you’ll suddenly get a different answer from
by sillysaurusx 4y ago
Your eyes are telling you what color that shade of red is on the wall. But if you put it next to a different color, you’ll suddenly get a different answer from your eyes.
I think if our eyes can deceive us at a fundamental level, it’s arrogant to think we aren’t deceived by our thoughts.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoWell then those who think they are coming up the sentence one word at a time are equally as easy to fool, no? They could have the whole sentence figured out and their attention is only coming to a single word at a time, possibly revising what's in their field of mental view if they come up with a better word. That's the fun with these sorts of doubts, if we assume nothing, then we can form an argument for anything.
- bheadmaster 4y ago> That's the fun with these sorts of doubts, if we assume nothing, then we can form an argument for anything. We can form a counter-argument to anything, to be precise. :) It's very hard to analyze ourselves only from our own consciousness. Especially since the consciousness itself is very likely an illusion [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will