• muddi [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    We have our senses in the form of our physical sense-organs, and the nervous system centralized in the brain to make sense of the sensory inputs to the organs.

    That's about it in terms of individual bodies. We can communicate with other people and things which extends our range.

    Internally, there is a lot of "range" ie our mind can figure out or guess at things, but it's not always correct, and any information we gain from this is stuck inside our heads.

    Even when we act on thoughts, the thought is still inside us. However much we describe our thoughts, we don't really transfer them so to speak. Thoughts don't impart physical actions as much as me writing down my crush's name on a piece of paper causes a relationship to form. It's material things and people who ultimately cause actions.

    There's a scenario in philosophy, in the west called Gettier problems. Using the Indian philosopher Dharmottara's words:

    A fire has just been lit to roast some meat. The fire hasn’t started sending up any smoke, but the smell of the meat has attracted a cloud of insects. From a distance, an observer sees the dark swarm above the horizon and mistakes it for smoke. "There’s a fire burning at that spot," the distant observer says. Does the observer know that there is a fire burning in the distance?

    This is to say, we can get all the information we think we need, process it correctly, and be correct, yet not correct. This is how I would consider scenarios which feel like something freaky just happened