Guest guest Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 When Idealism asserts that all we can know is perceptions, and that perceptions are not representations of objects external to our mind, the problem of illusion, and hallucination arise. How do we explain hallucinations if perceptions are not representations of external objects? Indeed, the very definition of a hallucination is a perception that refers to no object outside itself. We know we have had a chair hallucination if we sit on it and fall flat on our butt. What is that that we expected to support our weight and wasn't there to do so? When you go on vacation, you have vacation perceptions that have the qualia called real. If after you return to work, you remember your vacation, no matter how hard you try, that doesn't have the qualia of being real, of being there. If both are mind events with no objective referent, how do you explain the lack of reality of the remembered vacation? Such are the problems of idealistic perception. http://cerosoul.wordpress.com http://awakefiction.wordpress.com Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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