Try to describe vision without the words sight, vision, see, sense . . . or any sense of those words. Vision isn't matter, it isn't really a concept, because we FEEL it. It's a way to sense light, obviously, but what is it that we see? (I can't even express my question with words, I'm trying to give people the jist of what I'm feeling).How is it possible?? Is vision even a what? Its mind boggling.
I know some people are gonna call me whacko for asking this, but please, serious, philosophical answer.
2007-05-18 14:32:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
OK, obviously, none of you understand my question, and none of you have answered it correctly. We see colors, but how is it possible? How is it possible to paint a mental picture for us? Is vision only the sense of light? Nothing else? Or is it a branch of the touch sense and what we SEE is pressure of the light and chemical reactions in our head.
2007-05-19 03:42:08 · update #1
Except maybe the last person.
2007-05-19 03:42:34 · update #2
Vision, what we see, is a sensual input available to living beings to help with our dimensional perception of the physical world.
I'm not sure where the confusion is. As a sensual input, it is a thing, just a sound is a thing. Sure it is not a physical thing like a rock, but our visual perception of a rock is also a thing, it's just a derived thing.
Interestingly, we describe our perception as humans based on light visible to us, between infrared and ultraviolet. But other beings can see infrared and/or ultraviolet, so I wonder what "colors" they see?
2007-05-18 16:44:18 · answer #1 · answered by shshao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vision is the ability to see. The philosophical implication in this question is, what can't you see that you wish you could see? Or, what is it about vision that you need to know or understand in order for you to see more clearly. Either way, let's just be honest and admit that what you want is X-ray vision, and although the eyes can't do that for you, the imagination can.
2007-05-18 23:44:08 · answer #2 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. How about a cognitive stimulation to light.
2007-05-19 07:40:47 · answer #3 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question lacks any meaning for me. It is an oddity to create a situation that is frustrating, unless frustration is what you feel.
I don't frustrate myself.
2007-05-18 22:15:31 · answer #4 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't.
2007-05-18 21:57:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋