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2016-04-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Do we see reality as it is? Our perception of the world may simply be an ILLUSION, says leading expert

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Posted by Fred 2016-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I guess these people have never had a freshman philosophy class. "I refute it thus" Paging Samuel Johnson

Posted by Albemarle Jones1214 2016-04-23 00:14|| 2016-04-23 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Doctor Johnson also famously said, prophetically, "No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous."

Posted by Woozle the Great7263 2016-04-23 00:23|| 2016-04-23 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 'That's the key idea,' said Hoffman. 'Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive.
'They guide adaptive behaviours. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don't need to know.

Hardly a new idea. Most mammals don't see colours or see them poorly. Primates co-evolved colour vision with trees that produced fruits that changed colour when ripe.

Doesn't mean the world is an illusion. It's just that we perceive it selectively.

Posted by phil_b 2016-04-23 01:08|| 2016-04-23 01:08|| Front Page Top

A thing can be over-thought. 'Embrace the suck and live the dream.'

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-23 01:16|| 2016-04-23 01:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Take him for a stroll in some 'hoods' and reality will smack him right in the face and out of his comfortable ivory tower bubble.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-23 08:32|| 2016-04-23 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 The REAL illusion is that this person is an expert of anything. As soon as I read California I knew this is a buffoon.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-04-23 09:31|| 2016-04-23 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Methinks the Professor doth smoke the herb too much.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-04-23 09:37|| 2016-04-23 09:37|| Front Page Top

#8 I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Also known as libtard 101

Posted by DarthVader 2016-04-23 09:49|| 2016-04-23 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 ...so that means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be one little tiny universe...

Posted by DepotGuy 2016-04-23 11:50|| 2016-04-23 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 "Dooood"

Posted by Frank G 2016-04-23 13:02|| 2016-04-23 13:02|| Front Page Top

#11 "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-23 14:35|| 2016-04-23 14:35|| Front Page Top

#12 So, to create a wholly new analogy, all of what we see is like the shadows cast on a cave wall?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-23 14:36|| 2016-04-23 14:36|| Front Page Top

#13 I just invented that, btw. If any of you losers want to use it you'll have to pay a royalty.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-23 14:36|| 2016-04-23 14:36|| Front Page Top

#14 I guess they skipped William of Ockham in his class.

Posted by james 2016-04-23 15:31|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2016-04-23 15:31|| Front Page Top

#15 Dark spooks on the wall of a cavern:
Poor penitents hoods. "It's a klavern!"
And pale shadows, turning
From Christendom's burning,
All face the idealist blatherin'.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-04-23 22:29|| 2016-04-23 22:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Penitents', even. Feckin apostrophes.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-04-23 22:56|| 2016-04-23 22:56|| Front Page Top

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