RE: What's Out There?
July 11, 2015 at 12:31 am
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2015 at 12:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
They are (brain function), but that doesn't mean that our brains are always wrong. We have a whole array of equipment available to give us a second opinion when we have reason to believe that they are. Both my biology -and- the spectrophotometer, for example, will tell you that the oceans are blue, it's just that my biology and the spectrophotometer use different shorthand, just as people do when they say blue or azul. In fact, I could build you a box right now to blind out a small portion of the ocean (say 1 foot by 1 foot?) so you could check it and see...when no one's "looking"..... whether or not the equipment changes it's tune. I'm betting that it won't, the conditions of your hypothetical would be fulfilled. "How something looks" -when there's nothing to do the looking is a strange question though, eh? It -would- look the same, so far as we can tell, but it would be a moot point, and the question can't be asked (or answered) sensibly in any case - as you're asking someone to describe what your question insists -must not- exist, hypothetically.
In any case, brains function here, in the real world, their use appears to be directly tied to their ability to do work in that real world. If our brain functions were -just- brain functions I see no reason that we'd suffocate by swallowing large crayons....and yet......so sure, sure, it's all a projection of the minds eye, but things like color and oversized crayons appear to be referent. Our apparatus appears to depend upon the things referred to, the things referred to rarely appear to depend upon our perception of them. Brain function reduces as well, and what that reduces into..can be reduced, on and on it goes, fucking infuriating, eh?
In any case, brains function here, in the real world, their use appears to be directly tied to their ability to do work in that real world. If our brain functions were -just- brain functions I see no reason that we'd suffocate by swallowing large crayons....and yet......so sure, sure, it's all a projection of the minds eye, but things like color and oversized crayons appear to be referent. Our apparatus appears to depend upon the things referred to, the things referred to rarely appear to depend upon our perception of them. Brain function reduces as well, and what that reduces into..can be reduced, on and on it goes, fucking infuriating, eh?
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