Ron,
That's why Ham so readily calls some of us nihilists. It sounds like he
interprets emptiness as nothing existing, rather than nothing inherently
existing. Your post explains it well.
Marsha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Kulp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:43 PM
Subject: [MD] what do we mean by Illusion?
Typically when we use the term illusion often we conceptualize it as a
hallucination. Something that does not exist. This is not so.
wikipedia defines ; The term illusion refers to a specific form of
sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination> , which is a distortion in
the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of
a true sensation. For example, hearing voices regardless of the
environment would be a hallucination, whereas hearing voices in the
sound of running water (or other auditory source) would be an illusion.
The human brain constructs a world inside our head based on what it
samples from the surrounding environment. However sometimes it tries to
organise this information it thinks best while other times it fills in
the gaps. This way in which our brain works is the basis of an illusion.
When we say objective reality is an illusion we are not saying that
stimuli does not exist, we are saying that stimuli perceived as
Things in themselves are a sensory distortion.
Illusions exploit the assumptions about the physical world.
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