RE: Back to the beginning: the cave
August 28, 2018 at 9:58 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 10:03 am by Foxaèr.)
(August 28, 2018 at 9:56 am)robvalue Wrote: I gave what I believe to be a very accurate and scientifically defensible model of how our brains end up producing our experiences. I don't know what else to tell you, so I'll leave it there.
Fair enough.
(August 28, 2018 at 9:46 am)robvalue Wrote: Our senses pick up information, convert it into electrical impulses, which then get sent to our brain, which analyses it and produces our experiences. So our experience is twice removed from the initial information. We'd have exactly the same experience from a fake source which could replicate those initial impulses. We couldn't tell the difference.
I'm uncertain how you're differentiating the experience.
It seems to me that if I see a rock, touch a rock, it IS a rock. How is me experiencing a rock not experiencing it? Is there such a thing as experiencing a fake rock?
Please, explain.