26 December 2024

Do Humans See Real Objects?

 Photons bouncing off objects reach the optic nerve. The photons are not the things in themselves. Invisible man suits can also present images of things they aren’t.

People see representations of objects that reflect select wavelengths of light in a particular way. That reflectivity matrix is an attribute of an object rather than a thing itself; the phenomenal rather than noumena.

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