TheLight said:
binary solo said:
No. What is real? Physical reality is only that which can be perceived by the senses, or by instruments that enhance our senses. So the only reality is that which our minds create based on receiving input data from our senses. We are all just brains in a bottle, it's just that our bottle is body shaped and not made of glass. When it comes down to it our mind is the only thing we actually have that we can be mostly sure is real. So how you feel is more real that what you look like.
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You are assuming way to much. That assumes people can't be mistaken and that assumes that logic is not greater than feeling and if what you say is true how can we trust our theoretical scientific theroies at all because how than would we know if our thinking is flawed.
So you only feel that I am wrong therfore your opinion would mean nothing to me.
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What? What is logic other than the exercise of the mind to make sense of what is perceived? Our scientific theories are all about understanding the phenomena we observe, when a theory is tested multiple times and consistently gets the results predicted by the theory then the theory is shown to be a good explanation for what is being obsevered.
You also have it backwards. Most of the time people are mistaken because they are using flawed and limited instruments (the human senses) to perceive reality. Since the instruments are flawed then usually perceptions are mistaken to one degree or another. And then there's the fact that a lot of people's brains are operating sub-optimally or even are somewhat broken, so the processing of the data that is received through imperfect instruments adds another layer of error into our perception of the world. So the reality we individually perceive is only our interpretation of reality not the objective reality. But also that reality is the reality for us because we cannot perceive anything differently. And yes, your opinion of reality is irrelevant to me unless I perceive that opinion as enhancing and improving my own understanding of reality. If your opinion doesn't do that then it is very much worthless, to me.
One does not only feel things, one knows and understands things too. However within the confines of your own perception of self, feeling is the same as knowing. If I am in a male body, but I feel female then I am female and how my body appears is either not relevant or it is a source of frustration because it does not match my sense of self.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
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