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ExperimentalCat


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Can you actually know?
#21998474 - 07/26/15 05:23 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The room you're in exists in your mind in the form of perception. Your mind exists within the room you are perceiving.
With both these premises in mind, how do you know there is anything outside the room?
Edited by ExperimentalCat (07/26/15 05:25 AM)
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secondorder
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How do you know that the room is even real to begin with?
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ExperimentalCat


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Same question really, just as relevant though.
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DividedQuantum
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Sigh. I think one knows via common sense, and that one knows that one knows. You just have to decide that reality is real enough, and get on with life. What you describe is a rather uninteresting form of solipsism.
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DieCommie

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ExperimentalCat said: The room you're in exists in your mind in the form of perception. Your mind exists within the room you are perceiving.
With both these premises in mind, how do you know there is anything outside the room?
Previous perceptions recorded as memories, of course...
Don't make the mistake of thinking perception is reality - it isnt. That cute phrase is a kind of metaphor, not a truism. What you think is reality is actually your perceptions. Reality, that which exists regardless of perception, is ultimately and forever unknowable.
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Re: Can you actually know? [Re: DieCommie]
#21999734 - 07/26/15 12:11 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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ExperimentalCat said: The room you're in exists in your mind in the form of perception. Your mind exists within the room you are perceiving.
With both these premises in mind, how do you know there is anything outside the room?
Previous perceptions recorded as memories, of course...
Don't make the mistake of thinking perception is reality - it isnt. That cute phrase is a kind of metaphor, not a truism. What you think is reality is actually your perceptions. Reality, that which exists regardless of perception, is ultimately and forever unknowable.
QFGDT
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Kurt
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Re: Can you actually know? [Re: Tropism]
#22002194 - 07/26/15 10:05 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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DividedQuantum said: Sigh. I think one knows via common sense, and that one knows that one knows. You just have to decide that reality is real enough, and get on with life. What you describe is a rather uninteresting form of solipsism.
I'd bet someone could probably hear that sigh through at least one layer of plaster DQ.
Ha, I just spent my day trying to make a response and have had to give up. 
I don't think there is anything wrong with Cartesians. But I hate Descartes (It's an old attempt. I decided to make an edit there instead, with what thoughts I had in mind.)
Edited by Kurt (07/27/15 01:37 AM)
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Re: Can you actually know? [Re: Kurt]
#22002587 - 07/27/15 01:12 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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DividedQuantum said: Sigh. I think one knows via common sense, and that one knows that one knows. You just have to decide that reality is real enough, and get on with life. What you describe is a rather uninteresting form of solipsism.
LOL, agreed. "Issues" like this are a waste of time imo. Its as meaningful and philosophically engaging as a chicken/egg discussion. Not attacking the OP just my opinion, and others...
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ExperimentalCat said: The room you're in exists in your mind in the form of perception. Your mind exists within the room you are perceiving.
With both these premises in mind, how do you know there is anything outside the room?
i can answer the riddle..
if according to premise 1 the room exists in your mind then you know your mind is outside of the room
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BlueCoyote
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DividedQuantum said: Sigh. I think one knows via common sense, and that one knows that one knows. You just have to decide that reality is real enough, and get on with life. What you describe is a rather uninteresting form of solipsism.
Common sense is not a strong indicator, but it is solipsism indeed, with all it's consequences...
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What is knowing?
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Re: Can you actually know? [Re: xFrockx]
#22005346 - 07/27/15 04:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well Frock, in the immortal words of Socrates (approximately), there is only one thing I know: I don't know what knowing is. And I don't know how I know that.
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Kurt
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Re: Can you actually know? [Re: BlueCoyote]
#22005585 - 07/27/15 05:12 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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BlueCoyote said:
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DividedQuantum said: Sigh. I think one knows via common sense, and that one knows that one knows. You just have to decide that reality is real enough, and get on with life. What you describe is a rather uninteresting form of solipsism.
Common sense is not a strong indicator, but it is solipsism indeed, with all it's consequences...
I'd add as a little caveat that solipsism can be described as a way of actively looking away from the consequences too.
For instance; isn't solipsism in a way, perfectly feasible as an approach? How about when we assume the approach of doubting until we reach what is indubitable, in general?
We do not bear this in terms of content, and assume it formally or for its own sake as an approach or "progress" towards something indubitable.
Nah, we're not these cartesian "solipsists" at all, are we...?
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Well sure reality is all in the mind and nothing is real, but to really embrace this insight is suicide. To really rebel against the mind could only result in death and death would be victory, as death is in the mind.
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ExperimentalCat said: The room you're in exists in your mind in the form of perception. Your mind exists within the room you are perceiving.
With both these premises in mind, how do you know there is anything outside the room?
Because you're not in the room with me
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Re: Can you actually know? [Re: Kickle] 1
#22018126 - 07/30/15 01:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ha, clever one. Or would that just be common sense?
Arguably all statements here are based on forms of reference, ie. of more or less common sense, but they can prove interesting.
It makes me think, common sense basis is generally a way of referencing affairs in the world that can be generally characterized in a transparent way, and that reference is what we call "common". But then, what that form of reference is also depends on the manner of how you stumble upon it.
For example, how about Momentos... If you lost your memories but carry signs of what is outside, you can know that there was a life outside the room that way. You may have a testimony of someone reliable. If that seems really common, think about how this thought experiment must be based, maybe unconventionally. It is probably not exactly just "fact consensus" you would be seeking by asking "Is there an outside to this room?", but then you could.
Here's one that gets me. Even if you were born in the room, you can know there is always another side, or at least contiguous dimension to any boundary you can touch or see. You hold a cardboard box in your hands and extrapolate an analogy.
That is the interesting one of course and the one that stands out, but it is as hard to describe as a 2001 Space Odyssey Monolith...
Maybe we are the rational animals, Aristotle said... The ones who put or find themselves put in cages (or conceptual boxes) only to bust out.
I think there is something essential about the three fold plurality and structure of this question. We are implicated beyond duality, and we have this black hole like subjective mental space, at the same time. That is our world.
We navigate and "prefer" to find these layers by certain reference apparatuses, which we nonetheless ground in a common way.
This all reminds me of Supervenience theory, something I read a while ago, about reconciling with these levels of philosophical boundaries and strata. It is described from a philosophical departure in the Donald Davidson essay Mental Events. Wiki characterizes it as "physicalist and non-reductive approach." A general definition would be "Supervenience is an ontological relation that is used to describe cases where (roughly speaking) the lower-level properties of a system determine its higher level properties...
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Because science bitches!
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Re: Can you actually know? [Re: Marihuana]
#22038730 - 08/03/15 05:57 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Doubt is the only thing keeping me from being an arrogant asshole. I can never be sure, therefore I'm okay. Can I actually know?
A. I don't think so. B. I can't be sure. C. I hope not. D. None of the above
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Define know
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