igoddard at erols.mom
Mon Sep 18 20:07:02 EST 2000
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, igoddard at erols.mom (Ian Goddard) wrote:
> IAN: If you could, that would be great! Thanks for the
> pointers! If I feel the grass touching my feet after the
> signals from that contact reach my brain, and I see my
> feet after photons reflecting off them have reached and
> been processed by my brain, how can I see my feet that
> are outside my brain? I can only see the end product
> of information from my feet reaching my eyes and brain.
> How can I perceive an external thing before signals and
> data from it have reached and been processed my brain?
> How can I directly perceive anything outside my brain?
> It seems to me that an alternative model to the internal
> perceptual model cannot even be hypothesized in a way
> that is compatible with known physical limitations.
> Physical reality dictates that the location in space
> and time of an external event is different than the
> space-time location of the perception of that event,
> so the perceived event is the same as the actual event.
That last line should read:
"so the perceived event is NOT the same as the actual event."
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