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@secularmerlin
Your perceptions would be accompanied by the judgment that they are illusory. I don't think they'd be different at all besides this. It'd be like being in a dream and then realizing you're in a dream.
What is the difference?
What do you mean by "doubt"? I cannot be objectively certain of anything except that I am experiencing something even if that something turns out to be totally illusory. Is being uncertain of something the same as doubting it?A radical skeptic would doubt even solipsism
How would you realize it? Don't your perceptions seem "real"? How does one go about determining the difference between seems real and is real?
What do you mean by "doubt"? I cannot be objectively certain of anything except that I am experiencing something even if that something turns out to be totally illusory. Is being uncertain of something the same as doubting it?
Not that it cannot be real only that we cannot accurately make that determination.Do you think because something is subjective, it cannot be real?
All we have is subjectivity.
Up and down are largely meaningless distinctions unless viewed subjectively and height is only objective if our perceptions reflect reality which we cannot be certain of.
If we accept our perceptions reflect reality then we can make certain inferences from those perceptions, particularly with the application of the scientific method.
You are correct that quanta is meaningless without qualia but we cannot be certain that the quanta we have observed is more than our observations of an illusion.but we cannot be certain that the quanta we have observed is more than our observations of an illusion.
What is subjective about up and down?
real unit and the units we use are just representations of the real unit.
If illusion is consistent with itself, I think it doesn't matter.
I guess so.
I mean you can make inferences from perceptions whether they are real or illusory.No one made the claim that anything matters unless you did.
Yes
I believe it is safe enough to say that what is "real" is quantifiable by corroborated scientific observation.So I don't have a definition for what is "real" although I accept my perceptions as "real" for convenience sake.
Providing our perceptions reflect reality.I believe it is safe enough to say that what is "real" is quantifiable by corroborated scientific observation.
I believe it is safe enough to say that what is "real" is quantifiable by corroborated scientific observation.Providing our perceptions reflect reality.
Reference = frame of reference = relativity.If you know what's up you know what's down, but trying to decide direction without reference is meaningless.
If your definition of what is real is what you perceive then yes but if your definition is whatever qaulia exist regardless of our ability to confirm said qualia then we just cannot be certain.
Everything that is truly important and meaningful is qualia.
You are begging the question. The phenomena you mention are not "important" in and of themselves.Yeah, right. Those photons that tan your skin brown or burn your skin via UV or ionization are not important.
Finally you seem to get it.Just like with everything else, your environment is only important in as much as it affects your qualitative experience.