But maybe there is a kind of experience that cannot be simulated in a dream, for reasons having to do for example with consciousnesses interactions.
On Thursday, 14 November 2019 20:49:28 UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > From the perspective of *experiential realism (ER)* > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/5Vzj0mFW4KM/_qZECzTTAwAJ > > the experience that occurs in a dream *could be the same* as an > experience that occurs when awake. > > Say the experience is DaCoT = drinking a cup of tea (the feel of the cup, > the warmth and taste of the tea). > > A tea drinker knows a DaCoT experience when awake. They could have a DaCoT > experience in a dream. > > (This presumes experiences are real in the sense of ER.) > > @philipthrift > > On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 3:50:45 AM UTC-6, Cosmin Visan wrote: >> >> What would be a sure phenomenon that can help us distinguish between >> dreams and "real world" ? Because no matter how illogical a dream world >> might be, this doesn't make us realize that we are in a dream. So the >> randomness of a dream world is not a phenomenon that can help us >> distinguish between dreams and "real world". What I'm thinking that can >> help us make the discrimination is the phenomenon of sense disappearance. >> If we keep a sense on only 1 stimulus, eventually we will stop perceiving >> the stimulus. For example, if we hold our hand on the leg of a girl, at >> first it is pleasant, but after a time we will stop feeling anything. We >> will have to pet the leg of the girl in order to feel it again. Would such >> a phenomenon happen in dreams ? If not, then this would be a distinguishing >> hallmark between dreams and "real world". Do you have other ideas ? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/61cdc800-fda0-4f31-a43a-65a3d522f253%40googlegroups.com.
