If you touch this screen, do you feel the screen? Or are you feeling your finger?

Question

If this question is so terrible ('retarded'), why does it get any non-obvious answers?

If you feel your finger rather than the screen. the real question becomes, do we have ANY experience outside of ourselves?
As one bright person said, "solipsism for breakfast."

Answer 1

Interesting...I guess you are feeling your finger in the act of touching the screen. Solipsism for breakfast again...

Answer 2

God, I hate questions that make me think so much, but I think I've come to an epiphony for this retarded question. Well, your nerves just do the feeling, but the screen is the the thing you actually feel. So your nerves are feeling the screen, so you're not feeling your finger....you're feeling the screen. Does that make any form of sense?
That's why things have different textures. If you were feeling your finger all the time, then everything would feel the same.

Answer 3

I would say you are feeling your finger. Think of a person that has lost their sense of touch. They can still touch the screen, but since they have lost the sense of touch, it does not mean they are not actually touching the screen, there just isn't anything working on the fingertips to send the messages to the brain to tell you what to feel.

Answer 4

I only 'know' that there is something there called 'touching a screen' because I was told that this is what it is called when this event occurs. A sensation happens and the knowledge about what I have learned about this event called 'touching a screen' is brought forward. There isn't any thought specifically about the finger but mainly the event.

Answer 5

My finger will not even touch the screen since it will cause an imprint, and I have to wipe that imprint off.

Sorry I am too jaded and lazy to do as Ive been told, much more peruse something as monumentally engrossing as perusing split ends on my hair.

Answer 6

I never thought about this before. But you got me touching the screen a lot now, hold on..... *wipes screen*....... OK where was I? Ah yes.... I think we feel both of them; or we actually feel the contact between them. I am not sure.

Answer 7

Technically you are sensing something happening to the nerves that are in your finger. The nerves are part of your finger, so, I suppose, technically you are feeling your own finger.
Though that depends on whether you define feeling as what your nerves sense or what your brain comprehends from nerves. Your nerves sense the screen, your brain interprets the nerves.

Answer 8

retarded question. you can never actually touch the screen because the electrons create a magnetic force that you feel as a touch but it isn't.

Answer 9

I feel the screen.

Answer 10

i htink i just feel the contact. i feel somethin thats blocking my finger. thats all. i dont feel the texture of the screen lol. it doesnt feel like anything, weirdly. right?