RE: Seeing red
January 9, 2016 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2016 at 4:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Their meta perception..hehehe. Meta-bunnies!
I'm just making sure I understand, completely, what you're expressing. We get some live shit round these parts.
I think that observations of other things we consider to be perceiving would support your statements. Using the language of systems, systems arranged similarly to ours, in other animals for example...do seem to produce perceptions recognizable or analogous to our own.
Systems wildly divergent, appear to produce perceptions which are wildly divergent. We do not smell weight, as a dog does...or see sound, as a bat can...those structures which allow the bat to see sound or the dog to smell weight are significantly divergent from our own......but all three of us share a much more similar structure when it comes to our skin and extremities, and thus our tactile perception.
I don't know that this means that our perceptions are the only way they could be, given those systems..in all cases...but I certainly think that many examples of perception can be explained thusly. First person POV's, for example. How else could I percieve the world? I'm not connected to your eyes, or anyone elses...I have only my own sensory apparatus with which to build a representational model. My model will be necessarrily first person due to the structure and isolation of my sensory apparatus.
If I began to literally see through the eyes of another man I'd start to question a great many things about reality as I see it, lol.
I'm just making sure I understand, completely, what you're expressing. We get some live shit round these parts.
I think that observations of other things we consider to be perceiving would support your statements. Using the language of systems, systems arranged similarly to ours, in other animals for example...do seem to produce perceptions recognizable or analogous to our own.
Systems wildly divergent, appear to produce perceptions which are wildly divergent. We do not smell weight, as a dog does...or see sound, as a bat can...those structures which allow the bat to see sound or the dog to smell weight are significantly divergent from our own......but all three of us share a much more similar structure when it comes to our skin and extremities, and thus our tactile perception.
I don't know that this means that our perceptions are the only way they could be, given those systems..in all cases...but I certainly think that many examples of perception can be explained thusly. First person POV's, for example. How else could I percieve the world? I'm not connected to your eyes, or anyone elses...I have only my own sensory apparatus with which to build a representational model. My model will be necessarrily first person due to the structure and isolation of my sensory apparatus.
If I began to literally see through the eyes of another man I'd start to question a great many things about reality as I see it, lol.
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