Chain 1
From Chains of Reason
The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
Link 1
- Premise 1
- Perception is dependent on information about the external world reaching the brain, via the sense organs, and then being processed there.
- Premise 2
- It takes time for information about the external world to reach the brain, via the sense organs, and then be processed there.
- Conclusion
- The content of one's perceptions in the present is always the external world as it was in the past.
Link 2
- Premise 1
- The content of one's perceptions in the present is always the external world as it was in the past.
- Premise 2
- The external world of the past cannot exist in the present.
- Conclusion
- The world of one's perceptions is not the external world itself.
Link 3
- Premise 1
- The world of one's perceptions is not the external world itself.
- Premise 2
- An experienced world which does not exist external to the mind must exist inside one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories.
- Conclusion
- The world of one's perceptions exists in one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories.
Link 4
- Premise 1
- The world of one's perceptions exists in one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories.
- Premise 2
- If the world of one's perceptions exists in one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories, then the world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
- Conclusion
- The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
- see also:
- Chain 9: One's visual world is not merely a mental image of the external world.
External links
- Representative realism - Wikipedia article
- Direct realism - Wikipedia article
