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The Bottom Line - third bullet point

Submitted by Ted (guest) on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 3:49am.

"Senses are a way not of knowing what's out there but of making informed guesses about it"
I have a problem with that. I'm fine with the concept that my version of "what's out there" can only be "in here".
(My brain can't step out of it's box for the umpteenth time to check whether my eyes are lying or not.)
Therefore, we can hardly talk seriously about "our world", can we.
Because I have no way of knowing whether what you believe you see and hear matches my experience of the same stimuli.
That said, what bothers me is the "it" at the end of the above quote: making informed guesses about what?
If all we have of "the real world" is the sense my brain makes and the sense your brain makes (and ne'er the twain shall meet),
it seems to me the true nature of the source of the stimuli must, ipso facto, remain quite beyond our ken.

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