However, the view is also compatible with indirect realism for the brain is continuous with the matter of the world and so as the world may be colored so may be a visual field within the brain. — lorenzo sleakes
On the contrary, I've stated a demonstrable biological fact (re: cell biology). Feel free to refute it with more than mere speculation.you are stating current dogma — lorenzo sleakes
A different perspective is that sensations are ontologically primary and fundamental. Mind is the idea of that which experiences sensations. Matter is an idea we use to make sense of sensations — Art48
A sensation is by definition something created in the mind.Are sensations mind dependent?
... sense qualities only exist in the mind or soul of perceivers and are not really out in the world — lorenzo sleakes
Are you saying that matter and mind are merely useful fictions and dont really exist? I would agree that sensations are epistemologically primary - all of our knowledge is based on them. But then we can theorize that matter and mind are real in that matter lies behind and helps make sense of sensations and mind is real in its capacity to experience them. — lorenzo sleakes
The common sense view also says the Earth is flat and stationary.↪Art48
the common sense view is that mind can experience things outside the mind in the world - the blue sky, the green leaves, the singing birds. — lorenzo sleakes
What on Earth would a "mindless sensation" be? — RogueAI
Sensations are what I directly, immediately experience.
Mind and matter are ideas which make my sensations coherent. — Art48
Sensations (or sense data) IS reality.You are sensing sensations. You see sight. You smell smells. It’s not reality because it doesn’t apply to anything in reality. — NOS4A2
I don't understand. What can't be instantiated? The visual perception of white or black? The auditory perception of the rain? The odor of food cooking? In what sense is the sense data delivered by my five physical senses not instantiated?They are not reality because they cannot be instantiated. — NOS4A2
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