Everything is a representation of reality (a non illusion) NOT a misrepresentation of reality (an illusion).
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So, everything is a representation of reality. Is there no reality that is represented? Why canât we write everything is reality?
We can only say that of ourselves. To access the rest of reality we mustâŚask. Or at least interpret the meaning on display⌠and then ask, âIs that what you meant by this?â
We canât write everything is reality because everything is NOT a misrepresentation of reality (an illusion) because everything is a representation of reality (a non illusion).
If everything is a representation of reality, it sounds like there is no reality, just representations of reality, which would be odd since they wouldnât then be representations of something so the word choice is odd. Wouldnât everything be either reality or representations of reality? As far as your answer above to my last question, I still donât get it. Can you word the first post I responded to in a different way?
Who are we asking this question? Are we representations of reality? Are other people? What do you mean by âthe rest of realityâ? I was asking Jupiter who said everything is a representation of reality? Is he a representation of reality (and not reality)?
Wouldnt it be more accurate to say that everything is a continuation of reality?
Its all based on reality, but whether or not it represents it, thats very much open for interpretation, no?
A binary processing biological machine exists because it needs to exist to claim that it doesnât exist.A binary processing biological machine is a representation of reality (a non illusion) NOT a misrepresentation of reality (an illusion).
Do I see you as you are? Do you see me as I am?
If all we see of each other is an appearing, what of the rest of what we see?
IchthusâŚyou are not binary electrical signals (thoughts) as Descartes claimed âŚat least move on from that nonsenseâŚWe know that binary electrical signals are converted into sounds;visions and sensations that we interpret.
This is an endless loop.
That which does not exist you cannot talk about, cannot think about.
Its the absence of information going even beyond something like the concept of ânothingâ.
An illusion needs to exist for you to talk about it.
Might be just a phenomena, a trick of the mind, confusion, emergent function, pattern, whatever.
But it cannot not exist.
An illusion is not realityâŚa lifeless binary processing biological machine which claims things is reality.
It seemed like, though Iâm not sure, you were agreeing with the person I responded to before. Do you think everything is representations of reality? Are we representations of reality? Is there a reality that is being represented but is not a representation of reality? If you donât share his position could you make yours clear on those issues.
So as the binary processing biological machine exists because it needs to exist to claim that it doesnât exist, the question now is âŚdoes it possess life or is it dead !!!..uuuuuuuummmmmmmmmm???
Finally,⌠REALITY PHILOSOPHY is progressingâŚ
Its a part of reality even if its an emergent or non material phenomena.
Thoughts, emotions, fiction, art, patterns etc.
They are all existing phenomena.
What does not exist, does not exist. It cannot be referenced, defined or even talked about.
is there a difference between possessing life and being alive?
What about Gettier cases?
You see from afar some statue, and think thatâs the face of a living person. You get closer and see itâs just a plaster mask. But actually, under the plaster mask there is a living person (anesthesized). So, even when itâs irrational to conclude thatâs a living person, it is.
That entails that just because something is a reality, it doesnât make it not truth.
The contrary is the usual confusion: just becase something is a lie it doesnât mean itâs not true
Did you know babies are born looking for faces? Itâs âa prioriâ knowledge for them, like their reflexes, and they donât even know it.
Weirder is that we can know things a-programmatically. Weâre programmed to. hehe snort
It doesnât always work, because weâre not omniscient, because not omnipresent (spatially or temporally)⌠but what always works (or ⌠motivates work âŚ) ⌠isnât located in any particular space or time.