Do you perceive the ball hit your head through direct experience? Or is it mediated through the interpretation of the mind?
Re:What Is the Nature of Consciousness?
by tsimionescu on Saturday June 03, 2023 @08:36AM
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This question makes no sense. There is no distinction between and my mind, so experiences of the mind are by definition direct experiences.
Either way, if you're claiming I'm just a figment of your imagination, this conversation really makes very little sense, and of course there is no proof I can bring that would convince you. The existence of a world independent of our own minds is a pre-requisite for any meaningful conversation.
Of course, since I can't observe anything except what I'm observing right now, I could conclude that I'm creating those observations. But I have noticed time and time again that the world largely looks like the same whether I observe it or not. Also, occasionally things that I didn't observe suddenly happen to me, in a way which is consistent only with them having originated outside myself (for example, a ball hits me in the back of the head).