OK...try to remain open minded reading this and ask yourself the question again after youve read it fully.
If I see an object sitting in front of me, lets say a shoe and you can see it too. You may tell me that you can see exactly the same as I do but how do I know what you are really experiencing?
We may both call it blue but can you say with certainty that were both experiencing the same thing, given the fact that 'blue' is just a label and although individually we may experience the same thing each time we look at it, in effect we could be seeing something completely different. Since it remains constant we give it this label each time we experience it.
Taking this small example we can apply it to the rest of our senses and soon we can see by following this logic that although each experience we have is intrinsically personal and may remain constant, we have no way of knowing for certain that other people's senses are the same as our own.
2006-07-19
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