Mar 9, 2010

Challenging the very PREMISE of Sensory experience


Jason returns home after a long tiring day at work and finds his wife, Terra and friend Siddle cosy in his bed. Before Jason says something Siddle asks him a QUESTION... "Whom will you believe? Me or your eyes?"
I read this joke somewhere and smiled just amused by the situation but there's more into this. Is Siddle challenging the premise of SENSORY experience? What sort of data is certain? The one collected by our senses or the one formulated in our mind by belief or trust etc etc? Can't the vision be a hallucination and taking any action based on it be wrong? So which way of gathering facts is more dependable and why?
-Jass Oberroi

2 comments:

Sumira said...

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Just reminded me of this video that I saw.

Gurinder, just summed up everything I wanted to say.

Jas Oberoi said...

@ garry and sumira...

Maybe I'll do the same too but that'll still leave us with a doubt always... (like the video by sumira tells us.)