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by pwm 1595 days ago
> We do experience reality directly: our nerve endings do.

Depending on how you define "reality" we only experience a tiny subset of it. We can only see/hear/touch/smell/taste a very restricted universe, only what our "antennas" can detect. In fact I would argue that we experience close to 0% of all of reality. On top of this extremely restricted input our processing of it is imperfect which means some of what we experience has nothing to do with reality.
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tgv 1595 days ago
Restricted as it may be, we experience reality. Experiencing reality completely is impossible anyway.

And in the context of hallucination, what we can't experience doesn't matter.

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pwm 1595 days ago
Sure, I don't disagree but (to me anyway) it's important to point out the difference between reality vs. our potential intake from it. The blind men and the elephant parable applies.
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