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Re:Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see... by gchamonlive on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:10AM (#23830524)
Not only that, Kant himself structured the idea of the world outside our field of experience in a critique of pure reason. Since then the idea that our experience is a perfect one and that all our ideas come from our experience has been questioned.

This is why when the interviewed said "We assume our perception is a perfect reflection of the physical world around us" it was really strange for me. Only those unaware of hundreds of years of advance in philosophy assume that. And this highlights possibly a field that is very much lacking in science, the critique of thought itself.

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Re:Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see... by slfnflctd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:43AM (#23831840)
> Only those unaware of hundreds of years of advance in philosophy assume that

So then, nearly all children, and most of your average working-class people? Seems to me the author was just tailoring the piece for a layperson audience, which is kinda the default writing approach.

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Re:Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see... by ta1234567890 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:24AM (#23833018)
I would say even a lot of very educated people, despite maybe having read about these topics, will still feel and act as if what they are perceiving is reality itself.

I'm actually very surprised to see so many comments here dismissing the article as something almost obvious.

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Re:Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see... by gchamonlive on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:44PM (#23834254)
that is because this thread is about a scientific publication in a respectable university site, it suffers a different level of scrutiny.
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Re:Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see... by gchamonlive on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:15PM (#23833731)
It really makes more sense as a rethorical and argumentative artifact. I guess I misinterpreted the purpose of that statement.
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