(February 14, 2013 at 5:32 pm)JDFlood Wrote: Everyone should probably ponder this for a while. But I also have to agree with above. A little bit in private is good, but looks silly in public. In one line of standard reasoning we suspect our perception: after images and miss perceptions. But overall 99.9999% we are correctly perceiving. The other is we are in The Matrix or similar you suffer a strong lack of evidence, motive ( now you need to invoke a god). Prove is a very strong word and can not be used on stuff we cannot perceive (in this case the framework for deception) ;-). JD
No actually, our perceptions are notoriously flawed. But that is a product of evolution, and due to psychology. That is separate than the issue of being real beings.
Religion and ideology are results of our species pattern seeking, but it does not mean the patterns we seek are true. Often we us a false perception as a placebo IE superstition or god belief. It can have a real affect of creating safety in numbers if the false meme is spread. The Egyptians falsely believed the sun was a god. That miss perception made them successful for 3,000 years.
Chimps seem to smile, but what they are really doing is bearing their teeth in a show of defense "come near me and I will bite you". I am of course talking about wild ones, not the trained ones we see in the movies.
We also miss perceive distances and or sounds and memories about trauma can also be false. Eyewitnesses in criminal trials may truly believe what they are testifying to, but scientists can and do often refute their flawed perceptions.
Perceptions are notoriously flawed not mostly accurate. It is not all accurate or all inaccurate , simply messy and inconsistent at times. Flawed does not mean wrong all the time, just not perfect.
