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This is a key example of how priming the sensory system can create the perceptual experience of something happening that objectively is not. When we understand that our systems are easily tricked, we begin to see how reality is not so absolute and objective as we think it is. 🐲
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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

The fact that we are easily deceived just means we are flawed, maybe gullible, and often mistaken.

It does not mean reality isn't objective and absolute.

The universe doesn't owe us simplicity or clearness and something can be true regardless of our utter complete ignorance about it. Reality doesn't revolve around humans. The universe was around long before us and will be here long after us, it doesn't depend on us.

Something can be objectively and absolutely true regardless even if us humans in particular are too limited, flawed, gullible, ignorant and stupid to actually understand anything about it.

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Dr. C 1y ago

(Second attempt on a different client in case I double post)

Of course you are correct. This is evident considering there are many things outside of our ability to detect them which objectively exist. We can only perceive 2% of the electromagnetic spectrum for example.

I’ve built an entire series on YouTube talking about this exact same issue and expanding it to the idea that there are many planes of existence but our sensory system is designed to compute reality into one single one.

To my point above, I was referencing the illusion of reality being a perceptual experience that is easily tricked. Not reality itself although leading evolutionary neuroscientist Dr. Donald Hoffman suggests that even this may be suspect.

In short, the way our cognition computes “reality” is faulty, missing objective data, slow, and easily fooled. Yet many humans walk around assuming that what they see and believe is “the truth”….Including that the reality layer they went to sleep in is the same they woke up in… and that the dimension that they had lunch in is the same as the one they will have dinner in.

If you’re interested you can check out my YT series:

https://youtu.be/CSJ0_l-4r88?si=DDD5Hve0hATKetbg

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Valentino Giudice 1y ago

Indeed, the fact that our senses are easily deceived is one of the reasons we use instruments of measurement for scientific purposes (as they can detect things we can't, or detect things in a much more consistent manner). We also use animals that are better than ourselves when it comes to some senses (for example dogs for their sense of smell).

It's actually surprising, however, how far we can go using our senses alone, before running into our limits. I'm referring, for instance, to the study of the orbits of planets and the (apparent, relative to us) orbits of stars, and the difference between the two: something apparently (and truly) really hard to deal with, but which we have been studying since before having ways to extend our senses (including the telescope).