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How our brains create colors as qualia? [closed]
As we know, colors as we see them don’t actually exist out there in the world, they come from how our brains understand electromagnetic wavelengths. The sun and other light sources send out ...
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Is perspective a human limitation or a property of reality? [closed]
This might be an unremarkable observation but the further away someone is to an object the smaller it becomes and vice-versa. From an evolutionary standpoint it doesn't seem to be any type of benefit ...
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Is reality really “nothing but a hallucination”?
I asked this a few minutes ago on physics.stackexchange and they redirected me here
This question relates to the premise put forth in this TED talk, that reality is nothing but a shared hallucination:...
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Does one's perception of reality affect reality?
When taking in a situation, how much does the perception and predisposition to certain feelings (anger, anxeity, etc) as well as all the various enviroment inputs, like how one was raised, the things ...
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Epistemology of derealization
I'm wondering if anyone has analyzed derealization from an epistemological perspective. If one person perceives the world as real and another perceives it as unreal, are we justified in viewing the ...
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Is it necessary/possible to prove that facts exist?
I am having a debate with someone on the internets. He claims that there are no such things as facts absent interpretation. For example, if I see a ball dropping, it's not a fact that a ball is ...
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