More nerds need to get into philosophy. Specifically CS nerds. I think there’s a tendency, when you get into programming, to start seeing the world in terms of discrete, quantifiable units and categorical rules. It’s a helpful counterbalance to also study something that uses logic to deconstruct that kind of objective physicalist assumption.
"Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything."
nothing is real do what you want
That is a fallacious conclusion from this observation. Don't use this philosophy as an excuse to act like an asshole.
While everyone perceives reality slightly differently, apples do have a specific light absorption and reflection spectrum.
Our limited perception of it doesn't make it "not real". Same is true for other senses as well.
To make it even crazier while we think of color blindness as a binary thing, it's really (like most things) a spectrum.
Everyone has a slightly different ratio of cones. And some have a different amount of cones than others. Then there's the ratio of the different comes to rods.
Take any two random people and they'll likely agree what name a color is, but they both experience that color slightly differently.
*Epistemology
Remember kids that you don't feel matter; you feel the electrostatic repulsion of electrons that occupy part of the 99+% of empty space of each atom is composed of. The vibrational frequency of those atoms create heat that radiates through that void to be detected by other atoms as more or less heat energy. Over 99% of you is empty space and radiant energy, which means that mathematically you barely even exist.
Well yeah, that thought is important. While apples do have an objective color in the sense that physics teaches us that electromagnetic radiation with a certain frequency is more or less likely to be absorbed/reflected, we can only perceive a subjective color.
I personally define reality as any measurement that a machine (computer or robot) can take. As such, there is an objective reality. But also, most people mostly act on emotion and not based on real data.
But also, this isn't a meme. It belongs in the philosophy or science memes community.
Funny – just this week I ran into the concept of Solipsism for the first time in my life, and now this post.
We do know how things taste, sound, look, smell, feel, etc because those are all subjective concepts of perception. Without us, the physical phenomena we sense don’t do any of those things.
That's ridiculous. Our perspection is fully acceptable as proof of reality. The fact is that as our perception is limited, we are limited in our knowledge of the reality of things. Somehow mantis have an access to the reality of things we don't have and that dog don't have. And through their sense of hearing dogs have an access to the reality we don't have.
I discovered that what we think is real is only what we perceive and behind that is just an empty void when I had a particularly strong acid trip
Imma invent a new image format that just counts all of the photons and their wavelengths
Eyedea and Abilities - Powdered Water Too (1)
Give it a listen
"nothing really tastes [etc], it's just your brain's interpretation"
1 that brain is you
2 the interpretation constitutes the fact that it tastes or whatever, what else could that even mean?
If that's where that person ends up after "thinking too much"..
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again."
sometimes teaching be like going the opposite way and turning complex theories into relatable shitposts
