Poll about realism

What is your position on realism?

  • Direct Realist

    Votes: 25 58.1%
  • Indirect or Representational Realist

    Votes: 10 23.3%
  • Non-Realist

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • Don't know / none of the above

    Votes: 6 14.0%

  • Total voters
    43
Unfortunately, the answer of 'unconscious perception' can also be used to explain the privacy issue, and any and all other problems within non-realism. It's like when you're a kid, and you run out of reasonable explanations in a story, so you resort to 'magic' or 'high-tech'. Resorting to 'unconscious perception' leaves us pretty much nowhere.

Plus, it's yet another assumption.

I think you've misunderstood me. I am defining perception as a physical behaviour, for example, the blindsighted person who can point to a marked cross while claiming not to see the cross. There are physical relationships to explain. That is why unconscious perception falls into the category of how to explain the emergence of the physical realsm under non-realism. I fail to see how this definition of unconscious perception can used to explain privacy within non-realism. Can you?
 
Because what constitutes what we think of as 'other people's experiences' could, in fact, be a unified set of experiences, yet unconsciously perceived by the 'I'. Or, to put it another way, all experiences are being had by The Experiencer, but in some peculiar order or sequence such that each set is perceived as a unique state of I AM.
 

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