Camera analogy is a little Incoherent to me. Who is saying that the Human Eye is what we are Seeing when we See something. The Human Eye is just the first stage of chain of Processing that ultimately delivers the Conscious Visual Experience.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:33 pmObviously. It's just that what you know isn't only something mental. Confusion between those two ideas shouldn't be that difficult to sort out.SteveKlinko wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:26 pm Everything you Know and ever can Know is obtained through your Conscious Experiences/Perceptions.
Think of an analogy with a camera, say. Everything you photograph is obtained through a camera lens, etc. This in no way implies that what you photograph is the camera, camera lens, etc.
Not at all. What it is to perceive an object is to perceive it via light reflected from it. That's not NOT perceiving an object. It's what perceiving an object amounts to.You accept that you do not Perceive the Object but that you Perceive the reflected Light from the Object.
You say you See an Object as it is but you know that you are Seeing the Light and not the Object. But Seeing the Light is Semantically Seeing the Object. Now you must think about the Processing that happens after the Light hits the Retina. After the Light hits the Retina it is turned into Neural Signals that end up firing Neurons in the back of your head in the Visual Cortex. There is no Seeing before the Visual Cortex activates. Or do you disagree with that? If you agree that the Visual Cortex must activate to See, then you must agree that what you are Seeing is the result of Neural Activity. Do you agree?