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2019-08-08 at 8:26 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Everything out there depends entirely on what your nerve endings, your afferent nerves, your ganglia and brain matter and pathways tells you it is. You have no way to confirm or deny that the reports they are providing are true or false.
How do you form your notion of true or false? -
2019-08-08 at 8:27 PM UTC
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2019-08-08 at 8:31 PM UTC
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2019-08-08 at 8:32 PM UTC
Originally posted by Common De-mominator How do you form your notion of true or false?
The only way you can confirm true or false is having to trust the word of another source, such as your own body's components. Your consciousness is not your body's components. Your consciousness is first hand, but your body's components and their output are second hand. Your whole existence and everything around you depends entirely on second-hand information, not handled or touched directly by the consciousness. -
2019-08-08 at 8:32 PM UTCI'm putting 110% effort into this post.
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2019-08-08 at 8:38 PM UTC
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2019-08-08 at 8:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL The only way you can confirm true or false is having to trust the word of another source, such as your own body's components. Your consciousness is not your body's components. Your consciousness is first hand, but your body's components and their output are second hand. Your whole existence and everything around you depends entirely on second-hand information, not handled or touched directly by the consciousness.
That's not what I asked faggot. I asked: how do you form your notion of true or false? -
2019-08-08 at 8:44 PM UTCAlternatively, what does true or false mean to you? Define it simply. What does it mean to be veridical or not?
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2019-08-08 at 8:44 PM UTCFor example, I could fool a computer in the US into thinking it was located in Canada and was a Canada Goose and was the size of a house and could make bread and had three sisters and two brothers and was a real animal living in Alberta. All I would need to do is alter its code to reflect the reality I want its consciousness to see, feel, and sense, and it would have no idea any of its reality was manufactured. It would truly believe it, because it has to, because that's what its code told it was true.
So when you walk up to a tree, you see the tree, you feel the tree, you smell the tree, but that doesn't mean the tree is really there. It's only as real as your senses tell you it is. When you look at your own body, that doesn't mean your own body is really there, only that your senses say it is. Your consciousness could be somewhere else entirely, and you could actually be in a totally different form and a totally different body. You have no way of either confirming or denying, except to trust second-hand sources. -
2019-08-08 at 8:45 PM UTC
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2019-08-08 at 8:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL For example, I could fool a computer in the US into thinking it was located in Canada and was a Canada Goose and was the size of a house and could make bread and had three sisters and two brothers and was a real animal living in Alberta. All I would need to do is alter its code to reflect the reality I want its consciousness to see, feel, and sense, and it would have no idea any of its reality was manufactured. It would truly believe it, because it has to, because that's what its code told it was true.
So when you walk up to a tree, you see the tree, you feel the tree, you smell the tree, but that doesn't mean the tree is really there. It's only as real as your senses tell you it is. When you look at your own body, that doesn't mean your own body is really there, only that your senses say it is. Your consciousness could be somewhere else entirely, and you could actually be in a totally different form and a totally different body. You have no way of either confirming or denying, except to trust second-hand sources.
Originally posted by Common De-mominator That's not what I asked faggot. I asked: how do you form your notion of true or false?
Originally posted by Common De-mominator Alternatively, what does true or false mean to you? Define it simply. What does it mean to be veridical or not?
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2019-08-08 at 8:49 PM UTC
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2019-08-08 at 8:49 PM UTC
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2019-08-08 at 8:50 PM UTCMaybe to possibly. Seent
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2019-08-08 at 10:31 PM UTCIf you can't tell the difference between what is real and what isn't, does it matter?
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