Dimebag wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 12:26 pm 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 world is present to create the dream world. Most theories think dreams are bits and pieces of memories assembled in the brain and presented in the perceptual system.
When you hear me say a word, but mis-hear it, why does that happen if what you are hearing just is the sounds out there?
These are serious questions, please don't deflect with ad hominem as you have been doing.
As a direct realist, do you still believe that the sense organs produce the sensations? Or do you think that they are simply apertures which carry the sensations from out there inside your head to where you are, so you, the homunculus, with its own eyes and ears, can hear and see things?
How does direct realism explain internally generated experiences, such as thoughts, or another good example is, hearing music in your head? When you have a song in your head, it can (if you know it well enough) sound exactly like the one you heard on say the radio for example. If your experience is that of direct contact with reality, with no mediating constructive representational layers in the mind and through perception, how can direct realism explain this, and why it is seemingly overlaid directly over the “external direct” conscious experiences of sounds, and blended seamlessly with them?
Another tough one to explain is the way in which the our experiences are seemingly filtered out based on importance, sensory habituation would be an example, a concrete example might be, imagine you spray yourself with a potent body spray, initially you can smell it strongly, but over the course of maybe minutes up to a few hours, your ability to detect that scent is greatly diminished, yet, other people will be able to detect it just as you did initially. So the sensation has seemingly decreased, yet it actually hasn’t. What actually happens, is the neurons detecting those olfactory signals become habituated to them and as they don’t receive any feedback about the smell being important, their strength it takes to detect those signals increases.
Give me an idea of what you mean when you say you believe in direct realism.
http://www.owl232.net/papers/dis.htm
Just read it all. It debunks all the nonsense you believe.
Direct realism is a recognizable fact. That's why we born knowing that when we are childs. Our nature never lies. What lies is human ego with their BS when they get older.