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Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
There is a very powerful symmetry breaker- reality is experienced in broadly the same way by billions of other people. If you have an everyday experience, the idea that it might be an hallucination is ...
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Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
In an interconnected world , where consciousness of individuals are connected, it is possible to verify the subjective experience. Science has some understanding of the concept of interconnectedness. ...
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Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
The difference is simple. Many people in this world share the same subjective experience. In the case of A, many people do not share that person’s subjective experience.
If everyone claims to share ...
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Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
When is a hallucination the best explanation?
We have a fairly good idea of when and how experiences are unreliable. Just off the top of my head:
When you experience something while in bed in the ...
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Is the hallucination hypothesis always the best explanation?
Not if there is verifiable evidence for another hypothesis
First we can have a debate of what measure we use for "best".
But assuming there is any such measure, then the answer is: no, a ...
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How to see a subject within an object?
The Sanskrit prana, mentioned by @Double Knot in his comment, as well as the Greek "πνεύμα" (pneuma) - which are equivalent - are the underlying concept of the unity of all that exists, ...
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