*Epistemology
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That's ridiculous. Our perspection is fully acceptable as proof of reality. The fact is that as our perception is limited, we are limited in our knowledge of the reality of things. Somehow mantis have an access to the reality of things we don't have and that dog don't have. And through their sense of hearing dogs have an access to the reality we don't have.
"nothing really tastes [etc], it's just your brain's interpretation"
1 that brain is you
2 the interpretation constitutes the fact that it tastes or whatever, what else could that even mean?
If that's where that person ends up after "thinking too much"..
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again."
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This is just "tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound" but less concise.
sometimes teaching be like going the opposite way and turning complex theories into relatable shitposts