Questions tagged [perception]
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Proof that red and blue are different
How do you prove that two colors like red and blue are different? I'm not talking about their difference in frequency, I'm talking about its perception. It seems to me that the only possible argument to justify they're different is because you can…
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Direct Access to the Non-Existent
In Michael Tye's book, Consciousness, Color and Content, he illustrates his theory of perception with an example of a tomato:
"Consider, for example, the facing surface of a ripe tomato in a bowl
before you. In attending to the color of the…
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Why is it that as one is not presented with the ordinary object in an illusion, the same account holds for veridical experience?
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains the following interpretation of the Argument of Illusion in the context of the problem of perception:
In an illusion, it seems to S that something has a sensible quality, F, which the ordinary object…
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Why do people not perceive, when lying, that people may use it against them?
I watched Secret Devs and in there was an issue about faking insanity to find out, whether the suicide of her boyfriend was faked or real. It made me come to the conclusion, that people are unable to perceive accurately, how they look, when they are…
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Can we see actual light (electromagnetic radiation)?
To see, means to consciously perceive, unlike detect, which is a mechanical process, which requires no consciousness. A infrared camera can detect light, but it sees nothing. We, humans, see a representation of reality. As answered by my question,…
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Is there some philosophy that says we should see the world as a bad place first?
I found this to be somewhat true: think of the world as a bad place, or dystopia, and then you will see good things and good things, as they are unexpected.
See the world in which people are decent, and you will see bad things and bad things,…
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Is color gradience continuous?
Growing up, I used a lot of image editors or clipart game producers that gave you the option to vary a color over its gradient. Now computers process things discretely enough, so the gradient would be discretely projected, albeit appearing…
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Could color be a fundamental thing about the universe?
I'm talking about the color that is inside our heads. I'm not talking about wavelengths.
It seems like any attempt to answer the question 'What is color?' or 'How does brain create color?' must involve referring to 'color' itself.
We've assumed in…
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Is it impossible for two people to experience the same event?
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No two people can experience the same event.
Proof for statement
If two people interact ("share an event") then really, there were two interactions:
Person A -----------> Perceived interaction
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Person B -----------> Perceived…
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Material Perception and Quantity
It appears to me all our senses that allow us a perception of the world give us only a relative measure of quantity from the world‘s projection or reflection.
The world returns relative measure from a notion of difference from one thing and another.…
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Can we see an actual object?
Kants take on reality is that we perceive indirect reality. This is the belief that we perceive the representation of the world (our brains interpretation of reality) and not the real world (The world outside our heads). This is the generally…
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What is the nature of our reality?
Is our reality nouminal or phenomenal? Do we perceive actual reality or a simulation of reality of which our brain is the simulator. This is not to be confused with the simulation hypothesis (which postulates that the universe and everything in it,…
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