Post by Radrook Admin on Jul 11, 2022 22:14:18 GMT -5
Perceived Reality
As humans, we all take the reality of the exterior world as an irrefutable fact. But can we prove that beyond a doubt? After all, perceived reality is dependent on subjective perception of stimuli. Insects , for example, with their compound eyes, don't visually perceive the objects that humans or other animals perceive in the same manner. Bees don't see flowers the way we do. Because of this, it isn't hard to imagine some extraterrestrial creature perceiving our bitter as its sweet, or our brightness as its darkness our coldness as its hotness. Ad infinitum.
This leads to the question concerning the real nature of the stimuli which are inducing the different neurological reactions. What exactly are they, if indeed they exist at all. Renee Descartes proposed that perceptions might be induced by someone tapering with our minds and not by the actual existence of an exterior reality. In short, it was his version of the brain in vats idea. In short, a exterior world might be an induced illusion and we can't prove that it isn't.