Tag: illusion

• NOW you see it ! NO you don’t !

  Let’s continue our exploration of the difference between appearance and reality. How things appear to us is not the same as how they actually are. For centuries we believed our world was flat, because that’s how it appeared to us, but we were wrong. We eventually had to accept that our world was a globe. […]

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  22nd Jul 2022

  Consciousness, Environment, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Appearances, Computer, Cosmos, Dogmatism, Evolution, illusion, Images and Icons, Mind and Brain, Reality, TED

• Common sense? V

  After four posts suggesting that ‘common sense’ can be deceiving, I want to conclude this series by suggesting an area in which ‘common sense’ may be spot on.  One of today’s most obstinate mysteries is the origin and nature of consciousness, especially in the form of self-awareness. We humans, at present, are the most advanced […]

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  11th Dec 2021

  Consciousness, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  brain, Consciousness, God, illusion, Mind, Panpsychism

• Common Sense? I

  Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) is famous, or infamous, for arguing that esse est percipi – “to be is to be perceived”. What we humans experience as material objects exist solely in our perceptions of them. In other words, there are no material objects as such, but only minds (human and divine) containing mental ‘representations’. Hence […]

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  28th Nov 2021

  Buddhism, Consciousness, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Berkeley, Dr. Johnson, illusion, Materialism, Mind, Reality

• Consciousness, Mind and God

  What precisely is ‘consciousness’? On the one hand, we know exactly what it is. It is ‘what it feels like to be us’ in our every moment of wakefulness. It’s the contents of what we call our ‘minds’. But on the other hand, we haven’t the slightest clue what it is. It’s a complete mystery.  […]

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  28th Dec 2020

  Consciousness, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Aladdin's Lamp, brain, Genie, illusion, Panpsychism, Wordsworth

• Jesus and his Resurrection

  I’m fully persuaded that some of Jesus’ followers ‘saw’ him after his death, and were convinced that he had ‘risen’. ‘Seeing’ people who matter to us, after they have died, is not an uncommon human experience, nor are ‘visions’ of a religious nature. There is therefore plenty of debate around this, but I want to […]

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  27th Dec 2020

  Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  brain, illusion, memory, Seeing, vision