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Thread #167218   Message #4031794
Posted By: Donuel
02-Feb-20 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: ? probably more suited for Facebook
Subject: RE: BS: ? probably more suited for Facebook
It is obvious that objective experience isn’t the whole story. Humans, unlike bees, don’t normally see ultraviolet light, we can’t sense Earth’s magnetic field, unlike turtles, worms and wolves are deaf to high and low pitch noises that other animals can hear, and have a relatively weak sense of smell.
Everybody knows that we don’t see all of reality. I say we see none of it.

The function of the unconscious is to present us with a totality of what we know to judge someting our conscious mind can't handle.

On top of this, our brain presents us with only a snapshot. If our senses took in every detail, we would be overwhelmed. Did you notice the last time you blinked, or that fleshy protuberance called your nose that is always in your peripheral vision? No, because your brain edits them out. A lot of what our senses are doing is something like data compression, simplifying, in order to be moderately aware .

In fact, most of what you 'see' is an illusion. Our eyes aren’t all frequency-seeing, but capture fleeting glimpses of the outside world between rapid movements called saccades. During these, we are effectively blind because the brain doesn’t process the information that comes in when they happen.

Remember Plato's cave where we only have shadow vision?