<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">The point:  you cannot predict from the physical dimensions of the Necker cube that it will create the reversals and 3D effect you see.  bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 12:20 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>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.</div><div>It is critically important to <a href="https://canonizer.com/videos/consciousness/?chapter=differentiate_reality_knowledge" target="_blank">distinguish between reality and knowledge of reality</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 10:34 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The physical properties of the Necker cube do not explain the perceptions we get from it. <a href="https://www.google.com/search" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search</a>?   bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 3:24 PM Dave S via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 3:59 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Much of our experience consists of realities that we create.  Think of tastes:  music, food, fashion.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>
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