Is Experience Fundamentally Made Up?
Is Experience Fundamentally Made Up?
Is the experience of the world manifested by beliefs in axioms that act as foundations upon which to build conceptions that in turn form our interactions which further cultivate our experience of the world, thus is experience completely made up by beliefs?
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Veritas Aequitas
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A belief is a subjective attitude that something is true or a state of affairs is the case. A subjective attitude is a mental state of having some stance, take, or opinion about something.-WIKI
"experiencing hallucinations or dreams" do not entail beliefs as defined.Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seeing a yellow bird on a branch presents the subject with the objects "bird" and "branch", the relation between them and the property "yellow".
Unreal items may be included as well, which happens when experiencing hallucinations or dreams.
Thus, experience CANNOT be completely made up by beliefs.
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Completely...no, so I agree with you. By degrees? Yes.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:20 amA belief is a subjective attitude that something is true or a state of affairs is the case. A subjective attitude is a mental state of having some stance, take, or opinion about something.-WIKI"experiencing hallucinations or dreams" do not entail beliefs as defined.Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seeing a yellow bird on a branch presents the subject with the objects "bird" and "branch", the relation between them and the property "yellow".
Unreal items may be included as well, which happens when experiencing hallucinations or dreams.
Thus, experience CANNOT be completely made up by beliefs.
Re: Is Experience Fundamentally Made Up?
About as made up as an hallucination is made up, yes.
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Hallucinations affect reality regardless of their truth.
Quite frankly I believe hallucinations are symbols of the psyche where there is either neglected or uncultivated aspects of the self that "cry out" for attention...this "cry out for attention" is the hallucinations itself.
There may be rational qualities to hallucinations, they are the pain resulting from a deep wound and the pain points to where the psychic wound is.
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I don't know anything about brain function, only what I've read about by experts. Possibly, the brain could be hallucinating the entire cosmos into existence, is one theory. And that images seen are simply simulacrums.Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:21 amHallucinations affect reality regardless of their truth.
Quite frankly I believe hallucinations are symbols of the psyche where there is either neglected or uncultivated aspects of the self that "cry out" for attention...this "cry out for attention" is the hallucinations itself.
There may be rational qualities to hallucinations, they are the pain resulting from a deep wound and the pain points to where the psychic wound is.
All I seem to have is my imagination, and my dreams, to guide me to truth.
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Don't we all. It is a very Jungian thing....Fairy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:15 amAll I seem to have is my imagination, and my dreams, to guide me to truth.Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:21 amHallucinations affect reality regardless of their truth.
Quite frankly I believe hallucinations are symbols of the psyche where there is either neglected or uncultivated aspects of the self that "cry out" for attention...this "cry out for attention" is the hallucinations itself.
There may be rational qualities to hallucinations, they are the pain resulting from a deep wound and the pain points to where the psychic wound is.