What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?

[Philosophy Now]

Benedict O’Connell explores puzzles of perception with Locke, Kant and Nagel.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/131/What_is_it_Like_to_be_a_Dragonfly

[Belinda]

A good introduction to theories of perception and so to issues of scepticism

[Impenitent]

I didn't know Dragons wore pants...

-Imp

[ronald green]

The first line of the article is already problematic. Asking "how the world really is" implies that there is an objective world 'out there' that can't be perceived by anyone. An ineffable status, akin to belief in a deity.

[Belinda]

The first line of the article is already problematic. Asking "how the world really is" implies that there is an objective world 'out there' that can't be perceived by anyone. An ineffable status, akin to belief in a deity.

Deity is often basically order or structure. Apollo. I don't know of any deity that is Dionysian. Pan maybe.

[ronald green]

An objective world 'out there' would necessarily be ordered and structured - perfection, in fact, and thus inaccessible. Such is God for believers; and such is 'the world as it really is' for atheists..