Hallucinations are called hallucinations for a reason. Yes what we experience in the head is a construct about the outer reality, and when that construct can be seen as accurate enough we see it as normal, and when the construct is too inaccurate we say we are hallucinating.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:06 amIt just highlights the so-far-unjustified, binary stance he has on realism/antirealism. All or nothing. And he also doesn't seem to follow through on the implications his antirealism has on other people/minds, what he could possibly know about what we are like and so on.
He has two urges:
to generalize his conclusions and call them objective.
to undermine anything that gets in the way.
So, what happens is he chooses things that undermine parts of his own program.
It's a cake and eat too shifting ontology.
Then some neuroscientist comes along and says: "HO-HO-HO you know what, a construct is a construct so everything is a hallucination kinda, wow look at me I'm so deep and smart!"
Then VA and his ilk will flock to it and say "Oh wow look he's so deep! OMG I felt like this too since I was 7! It's all a hallucination and we just choose the one we can agree on! And later I took drugs and saw this again! The Truth is out everyone! My life is like totally changed!"
whahh...