The Most Mind-Blowing PHILOSOPHY You've Never Heard Of

[@chrdbl]

great icebreaker on phenomenology!

[@nikodemlewandowski379]

Thanks!

[@Snuni93]

I've recently read a sci-fi book called "The thing itself" which seems to have based its entire premise on this topic. It's about using AI to step outside of our limited human perception and thereby altering reality in unforeseeable ways.

[@raewowowow]

As a STEM student who is afraid of diving into philosophy, this was really a mind blowing video. Thankyou for simpifying it or I would have barely understood anything 😭. Really gave me a new perspective of life

[@nikodemlewandowski379]

I am glad you enjoyed it!

[@shripperquats5872]

Try a mental exercise; look at any object around you, each and every one is describable by you and holds some sort of value and familiarity. You could identify the elements that make an object like a lighter or a remote. Now, travel to an alien planet in your imagination-- this may take some thinking to understand-- and try to identify a single thing they might have based solely on the fact that it could not possibly exist in the same shape or form on earth. You really couldn't.. because everything would be alien. So sure, objects must exist outside of our perception because we still have a first-impression of anything and everything, not just our integrated conceptions of what was once a first impression of an object.

[@nikodemlewandowski379]

Hey, thanks for the awesome thought experiment! I think phenomenology would say that even though the object is there, our perception of it is what "brings it into focus" for us. So yeah, there’s likely something “out there,” but the way we experience it is always shaped by our perspective, our senses, and our context.

[@Hosenanzugtasche]

Oh, but I have. Thanks for the interesting intro, filled some gaps.

[@nikodemlewandowski379]

Awesome, I am glad you find it informative!

[@mjolninja9358]

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