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Re:I Should Have Loved Biology by mistermann on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @02:15PM (#40135203)
Humans contemplate "reality" on top of various models of it, as well as various other processes (cognition) and phenomena (culture), thinking they are contemplating reality itself. And the whole world runs on this. It's kind of funny if you think about it.
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Re:I Should Have Loved Biology by Kim_Bruning on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:31PM (#40139045)
I think René Magritte might have been on to you back in 1929. ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

(More seriously, Indirect Realism is actually several centuries old already, isn't it?)

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Re:I Should Have Loved Biology by mistermann on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:21PM (#40139363)
Very nice!

And yes, it is indeed very old...old and forgotten, even by those who have knowledge of it.

But it may even be worse: what is it in the first place?

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