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How does a direct realist explain things like change blindness, colour blindness, visual illusions such as muller lyer illusions, or many others? If what we see is the way the world is, with no intervention from the brain, how do these things occur. And also how do you explain dreams? Seemingly no ...

"All there is" is whatever there is within reality. It doesn't apply. Stick with me for a second. If there was "all there is", it would mean an static Universe which already contained everything since the beginning think of it this way... You have LEGO to make a mini Universe, a...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:42 am Re OP, there is no really-real reality

But there is ;s

I have in no way said that the mind, or consciousness, or awareness, can or ever does leave the construct from which it arises, the brain. I never said it can become detached from the brain. Oh yep, you literally said some type of nonsense of 'mind being somewhere else... rather than you imagining ...

Would you admit you are being deceived by your neural self powered by the brain? In principle, this is exactly the same deception, theists are deceived by their brain to "perceive" God as real from a pseudo-logical representation. Views? there is a you, and that this you has a brain that ...

Why this is so? It is due to desperate psychology within the brain to deceive so as to facilitate survival. I think it is due to the fact that the eyes and mouth in the right picture are actually the right way round - also, the mouth is smiling and the eyes are looking friendly and as these are the...

But the point really is about THE WHO OR WHAT is being delusion, who is experiencing a transcendental illusion? who is the claimer, who is the theist, who is the atheist? who is being DESPERATE? .. this is all about having KNOWLEDGE of such said concepts. .. Stupid. The WHO is who is the desperate ...

We are energy and we are individual and separate parts When we die we still have energy but not consciousness but reality carries on existing regardless Reality itself cannot die because what is real has to exist but it is in a constant state of evolution And part of this evolution involves the bir...

surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:24 am Then the illusion of life is amazingly convincing if that is actually true

It's not illusory. Dontaskme is neurotic delusional troll spamming nonsense since 2005. Don't ever pay attention to her.

Now is indeed what there is and there because the future has yet to exist while the past no longer exists But even though everything can only exist in the now it will not exist in exactly the same form for all of its existence Either the form dies or changes into another form as everything is in a ...

"All there is" is whatever there is within reality. It doesn't apply. Stick with me for a second. If there was "all there is", it would mean an static Universe which already contained everything since the beginning think of it this way... You have LEGO to make a mini Universe, a...

AlexW wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:59 am

bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 9:50 pm Minds are not due to/subjected to ideas. Therefore, they have no location.

If "they" do not have a location, this would imply that they either:

1) Do not exist at all
or
2) That they have no boundary

Which one is it?

3) you have a mind, so whatever you are, your mind is.

Tired of your bullshit on another forums mate. I had to answer this one. From the point of view of the mind itself What do you mean by "POV of mind itself"? There is no such thing, you have a mind, the POV of "mind itself" is YOUR POV. WHICH INDEED happens inside a brain. mind ha...

Ask yourself; What do you gain with a belief in God and what do you lose by giving up the idea of a God? The answer is you get psychological comfort with a belief in God and suffer existential pains and mental discomforts if you give up the idea of God. One should be able to infer the whole central...

No one is in a state of consciousness or unconsciousness no one is born or dies Only the mind is born not you You cannot conceive yourself as present neither can you conceive of your absence It is amazing that as powerful as the mind is there will always be one thing the mind cannot conceive of oth...