RE: We Have Senses for Input of Reality, Trust Them
I've been working out similar thoughts myself. There seems to be a long term goal of convincing people that they are less than and more than they are. We are supposed to be just animals with a bigger brain, or we are a complex of social interactions that present as an illusion of consciousness. The same people that tell us we are nothing more than the biochemical reactions in our brain tell us that we are what our culture makes us.
Anything but the simple reality.
I've followed the discussion that our senses "were evolved to disguise reality from us" with a sense of humor and bewilderment. How can people let themselves believe two opposite things at the same time, especially when both of them controvert the evidence of our own experience?
And even if it is all true, it's all nothing but a curiosity. We find that people respond as if they have free will, we relate to people as if they are actual persons and not "the illusion of self". None of it, even if true, matters as much as what we experience.
<How can people let themselves believe two opposite things at the same time, especially when both of them controvert the evidence of our own experience?>
compartmentalization of their minds.
it's a religious thing.
Thanks for the feedback. Indeed, we are both and many things, animals, more brain complexity and consciousness power, social. Consciousness/self is not an illusion simply because it's not a thing in itself that can be studied in itself through measurement of some kind. It's an emergent property from having a brain. People should really study more philosophical categorization like philosophical metaphysics.