(January 31, 2013 at 11:55 am)Question Mark Wrote: 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.
From the wiki: (bolded by me)
"A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space"
Which ever you choose, all visual perceptions should be technically considered an hallucination. But I see that you allow exceptions to the rule in that you have "faith" that they're accurate. Am I correct?
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