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Dr. C quantumdrc@verified-nostr.com 1 year ago
(Second attempt on a different client in case I double post) Of course you are correct. This is evident considering there are many things outside of our ability to detect them which objectively exist. We can only perceive 2% of the electromagnetic spectrum for example. I’ve built an entire series on YouTube talking about this exact same issue and expanding it to the idea that there are many planes of existence but our sensory system is designed to compute reality into one single one. To my point above, I was referencing the illusion of reality being a perceptual experience that is easily tricked. Not reality itself although leading evolutionary neuroscientist Dr. Donald Hoffman suggests that even this may be suspect. In short, the way our cognition computes “reality” is faulty, missing objective data, slow, and easily fooled. Yet many humans walk around assuming that what they see and believe is “the truth”….Including that the reality layer they went to sleep in is the same they woke up in… and that the dimension that they had lunch in is the same as the one they will have dinner in. If you’re interested you can check out my YT series:
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Valentino Giudice aspie96@Nostr-Check.com 1 year ago
Indeed, the fact that our senses are easily deceived is one of the reasons we use instruments of measurement for scientific purposes (as they can detect things we can't, or detect things in a much more consistent manner). We also use animals that are better than ourselves when it comes to some senses (for example dogs for their sense of smell). It's actually surprising, however, how far we can go using our senses alone, before running into our limits. I'm referring, for instance, to the study of the orbits of planets and the (apparent, relative to us) orbits of stars, and the difference between the two: something apparently (and truly) really hard to deal with, but which we have been studying since before having ways to extend our senses (including the telescope).
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