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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Apr 15, 2023 5:01:50 GMT
What if to remove anything that false from reality, what'll be? By removing dreams we would achieve weird people who drove by nothing to do certain things. By removing imagination we would have zombies not people, which act only mechanically.
We should understand false as just a twist – a way of manufacturing the reality. A certain isomorphism of it. This means it becomes possible for us to follow the truth if our brains are able to suit it. It means each time when somehow our minds can't reach a certain form (or be in a specific shape) any understanding or viewing the reality will be twisted.
Briefly, if our brains reflect the reality as a mirror, then sometimes because the mirror is dirty, curved, or even broken results in our wrong reflections of reality. So until the mirror is fair any reflections are still just isomorphisms, not copies.
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Post by Neuron420 on Apr 16, 2023 2:37:08 GMT
Humans are very limited in our ability to see and recognize the majority of what we call reality. An example is our vision; we see only a very small range of electromagnetic waves i.e. color wavelengths, thermal waves, Infared, x-rays and much more. Our hearing, when compared to other animal's, is poor, at best. We are constantly surrounded by multitudes of activity that we are unaware of because of our bodies physical limitations and our brains seeming to need to construct our realities out of familiar patterns. Thankfully, we have the ability to recognize our limitations and acknowledge we live in a reality that we seem to have little participation in.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Apr 16, 2023 3:13:57 GMT
Humans are very limited in our ability to see and recognize the majority of what we call reality. An example is our vision; we see only a very small range of electromagnetic waves i.e. color wavelengths, thermal waves, Infared, x-rays and much more. Our hearing, when compared to other animal's, is poor, at best. We are constantly surrounded by multitudes of activity that we are unaware of because of our bodies physical limitations and our brains seeming to need to construct our realities out of familiar patterns. Thankfully, we have the ability to recognize our limitations and acknowledge we live in a reality that we seem to have little participation in. So, if our brains construct the reality we live, rather than accumulating or reflect it, we're doomed to live within our own fictional world, right? There is something interesting here is that, if we still have an ability to recognise the limits we must have a mechanism to compare it with something that is true. Let me explain it a quite further: Let us compare X to Y. We claim that X is false, because X is not Y (or X doesn't have features Y has, etc) But this means that somehow we have found or we have seen Y (along with X, of course). Another example demonstrates a broken thought here: We claim X is false, because X is not Y. So, until we don't what Y is, how can we be certain about X? My answer to that that we cannot ever find out how good X (or how well it describes the reality), and we assume Y inductively by saying that there are plenty of evidence that lead to Y. |
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Post by Neuron420 on Apr 16, 2023 23:04:39 GMT
I don't know that I would say the world we experience is fictional, but rather that much of it is beyond our senses. Having said that, I want to make sure we are both talking about the same thing. I am talking about the physical world, the phenomenal world. Is this what you are talking about or are you talking about only the noumenal world? If you are speaking of the noumenal world, then I apologize for going off track. Cheers!
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