Everything you see in the world of extended space is your body's response to a minor tingle on the inner surfaces of your eyes.
Why don't we think of this all the time?
>>2734464
>Everything you see in the world of extended space is your body's response to a minor tingle on the inner surfaces of your eyes.
Wrong. Hallucinations are the product of the brain not the eye.
>implying there is anything outside of perception
>implying material things exist
>implying its not just ideas in the minds of perceivers
>>2734473
Missing the larger point, focusing on exceptions that are rare, and that I'd bet are parasitic on original visual data gathered through normal functioning.
>>2734477
> implying idealism is incompatible with the empirical realism of the physical world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8iTTV_fAU
>a cockatoo can figure this out but continental "philosophers" can't
You don't have complete control over the external world therefore it is not part of you.
There is evidence to suggest you are a fleshbag like the other humans you observe but no evidence you are a brain in a jar.
>>2736231
> you don't have complete control over your bodily actions or your train of thought so your self is not part of you
>>2736246
If I chopped your finger off would you die? In fact you can have parts of your brain dissected and still be a conscious functioning human being. Clearly "you" in the physical world is a slither of grey matter in the neo-cortex, tops.
>>2736246
>>2736280
>You
>>2734473
kek
>>2734464
Because that kind of introspection is evolutionary disadvantageous. The less you're aware of the arbitrary nature of your "self" and your experience if reality the better for your mental health.
Really makes me think.
>>2734464
I am actually failing to see the point.