(January 31, 2013 at 11:48 am)catfish Wrote:(January 31, 2013 at 11:34 am)Question Mark Wrote: But if you had an extended point that I haven't grasped, please do elaborate, and I shall be happy to give it consideration.
It is a well know "fact" (I use that term by scientific concesus) that everyone has dead spots in their vision. It is also a well known "fact" that the brain fills in those dead spaces so that you don't see the effect.
So, in a black and white world where things are either true or not, all of your visions would be considered hallucinations as the mental image you perceive is not 100% accurate.
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Well a hallucination would be when the brain is doing this incorrectly because of some adverse effect, certainly, but I wouldn't say I'm hallucinating when no adverse effects are present. My vision has proven itself reliable to determining my surroundings for the vast majority of my life when I haven't had some detrimental illness or medicine inhibiting my brain's functions.
In order for you to prove that I was hallucinating, you'd have to either prove that the reality around me is not as I perceive it, or that I am indeed under the effects of some hallucinogen or illness, and give me evidence of that effect.
