• Arkouda@lemmy.caOP
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    2 days ago

    The fact that there is word for this experience demonstrates that the experience itself objectively exists, which only serves to prove my point.

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      Yes, that word being mirage, which is so objectively real that you can take a photograph of it:

      In contrast to a hallucination, a mirage is a real optical phenomenon that can be captured on camera, since light rays are actually refracted to form the false image at the observer’s location. What the image appears to represent, however, is determined by the interpretive faculties of the human mind. For example, inferior images on land are very easily mistaken for the reflections from a small body of water.

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              2 days ago

              I don’t doubt that someone, somewhere, has had the very real experience of seeing a hallucinated Unicorn while eating random cacti in the desert! It would be ironic if this experience ended up distracting them so much that they walked straight past the very real oasis they were searching for, resulting in a very real tragic death by dehydration.

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                2 days ago

                Why do you believe humans need anything exterior to hallucinate?

                Why is the Unicorn being imagined different than the oasis to you?

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                  2 days ago

                  Fantastic, this provides another teachable moment for you! 😀

                  My comment presented something called a hypothetical situation. It is an example of how particular circumstances can lead to a specific outcome. The key takeaway is that–and I recognize this can be confusing!–it does not make any claims outside the details contained within the hypothetical.

                  This answers both of your questions, but let me make it easy for you: I don’t, and because I made these circumstances be true in this hypothetical situation.

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                    2 days ago

                    Even if it is an illusion created by the brain, does that make it any less existent?