[ExI] perception is reality - examples

[Brent Allsop]

How does it not??  Our knowledge of the necker cube, drawn on a flat piece
of paper, can switch back and forth between 2 different 3D representations.
It is critically important to distinguish between reality and knowledge of
reality
<https://canonizer.com/videos/consciousness/?chapter=differentiate_reality_knowledge>
.



On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 10:34 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The physical properties of the Necker cube do not explain the perceptions
> we get from it. https://www.google.com/search?   bill w
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 3:24 PM Dave S via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 3:59 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Much of our experience consists of realities that we create.  Think of
>>> tastes:  music, food, fashion.
>>>
>>
>> You're talking about opinions, not physical properties like mass,
>> location, velocity, color, density, etc. Physical properties aren't
>> dependent upon perception. A million people could say that an object weighs
>> 1 pound, but that doesn't affect the actual weight of the object.
>>
>> -Dave
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