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Originally Posted by Overdog
I see what you are saying about the senses and perception. Don't know if you saw this link I posted in another thread...
The Infallibility of Sense Perception
But I thought it was pretty interesting.... |
Assuming I understood what I just read, I agree with him completely. Very excellent article. Our interpretation of our percepts should change as our understanding grows. Our percepts are infallible since they are just the raw material that we interpret and integrate into our world views using logic. And we cannot prove them wrong (by that I mean the act of perception) or fallible because in order to do so we have to use percepts to do it, which would essentially be a contradiction because it would have to be valid and invalid simultaneously. Again, assuming I understood it.
The interesting thing about time is that it isn't directly perceived. It's a result of the perception of a conception which makes it like a second level perception. Maybe a better description would be that time is a conclusion.
Perhaps a better way of looking at it might be that our "mind's eye" generates perceptions of a subtly different nature than our actual eyes. It is my belief that we confuse the two of them sometimes and time is an example of this.
