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Re:To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight by BAReF00t on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:17AM (#21069600)
What do you mean ”outside“?

How can you tell there actually is an outside? (And if you can never tell, why would it matter?)

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Re:To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight by kleer001 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:07PM (#21076579)
You're venturing into solipsism and that's a well trod dead end. There's certainly an objective world out there. That's where all the fun stuff happens, you know, the stuff with other people, consensus reality.
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