One could argue that the film strip is a physical thing that exists in the physical world, but the movie is an illusion created by projecting that film strip. — pfirefry
Consider some definitions of illusion — Wayfarer
Is there a better word than “illusion” that we could use to avoid negative connotation? — pfirefry
Even if we're wrong about everything, there can be no doubt that there is a subject who is wrong. — Wayfarer
What if it can be divided into multiple parts? — pfirefry
What if the subject that you're talking about is not an atomic thing? What if it can be divided into multiple parts? Some studies suggest that if we split the two halves of the brain, each half will act independently from another. Do we end up with two subjects, or still one subject, or perhaps no subject at all? — pfirefry
Community is experienced differently by each participant in it — Joshs
taking community as primary is incoherent. — Joshs
Scientists are just as vulnerable to wishful thinking, just as likely to be tempted by base motives, just as venal and gullible and forgetful as the rest of humankind. Scientists don't consider themselves to be saints; they don't even pretend to be priests (who according to tradition are supposed to do a better job than the rest of us at fighting off human temptation and frailty). Scientists take themselves to be just as weak and fallible as anybody else, but recognizing those very sources of error in themselves and in the groups to which they belong, they have devised elaborate systems to tie their own hands, forcibly preventing their frailties and prejudices from infecting their results. — Dennett
But are you and your experience, whether as Agent Smith or the Madfool? It may be about naming of identity, to describe experience, or does the experience in itself have more to say about the nature of consciousness? Each of us is an individual aspect of consciousness, and what does this mean? — Jack Cummins
Some may see consciousness as an illusion, as Dennett does, — Jack Cummins
There's no difference between me, asleep, and me, awake! — Agent Smith
Of course there is a difference; when you are awake, you are awake, and when you are asleep you are asleep. This is basic. — Janus
two different states of being. — Janus
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