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Back to the beginning: the cave
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RE: Back to the beginning: the cave
August 28, 2018 at 9:46 am
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.
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Back to the beginning: the cave

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Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 9:02 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by purplepurpose - August 28, 2018 at 9:06 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 9:14 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 28, 2018 at 9:40 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 9:43 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by bennyboy - August 29, 2018 at 4:35 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 30, 2018 at 1:58 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 28, 2018 at 9:46 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 9:47 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 28, 2018 at 9:50 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 9:52 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by vulcanlogician - August 28, 2018 at 10:08 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 10:12 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by vulcanlogician - August 29, 2018 at 10:11 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Whateverist - August 29, 2018 at 10:36 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 28, 2018 at 9:56 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 9:58 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Aroura - August 28, 2018 at 9:58 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 28, 2018 at 10:06 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by The Grand Nudger - August 28, 2018 at 10:28 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 10:31 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by The Grand Nudger - August 28, 2018 at 10:34 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 10:36 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by purplepurpose - August 28, 2018 at 10:39 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Foxaèr - August 28, 2018 at 10:42 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Angrboda - August 28, 2018 at 12:32 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 28, 2018 at 10:46 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by The Grand Nudger - August 28, 2018 at 10:57 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 29, 2018 at 1:33 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Aroura - August 29, 2018 at 2:14 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 29, 2018 at 2:46 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by ignoramus - August 29, 2018 at 3:35 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by The Grand Nudger - August 29, 2018 at 6:16 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by bennyboy - August 29, 2018 at 6:55 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by The Grand Nudger - August 29, 2018 at 7:26 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by vulcanlogician - August 29, 2018 at 7:58 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Aegon - August 30, 2018 at 10:22 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by brewer - August 29, 2018 at 8:11 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by bennyboy - August 30, 2018 at 3:03 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by Angrboda - August 30, 2018 at 7:54 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by robvalue - August 30, 2018 at 8:49 am
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by bennyboy - August 30, 2018 at 5:02 pm
RE: Back to the beginning: the cave - by The Grand Nudger - August 30, 2018 at 5:55 pm

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