VPN AP03 - Perception and Reality (Naïve, Indirect, Direct)

Join the Virtual Philosophy Network (VPN, www.virtualphilosophynetwork.com, @VPNPhilosophy, www.facebook.com/Virtual-Philosophy-Network-102914774890504/ ) and SD Philosophers' Roundtable for a beginners' series of seminars on American philosophy, a discourse from the ground up.

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To all who RSVP, I will post the link to the online meeting about roughly, maybe 10 minutes before the event.

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01. Human Nature As a Starting Point
02. Permanence and Change in the World
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03. Perception and Reality (Naïve, Indirect, Direct)
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04. Promiscuous Believers and Promiscuous Doubters
05. Consciousness As a Biological Advantage
06. Sarastro and Queen of Night (Or Reason and Passion)
07. Desire, Appetite, Pleasure (High and Low)
08. Action and Reaction
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03. Perception and Reality (Naïve, Direct, Indirect):

1. What is it that is real?
2. Is the seeing (or the hearing, or the touching, ..., i.e., the perceiving) making it real?
3. When one perceives, what is it that one is perceiving?
4. Can perceiving be deceiving?
5. Why is perception ~often~ said to be indirect, ~sometimes~ said to be naïve, and ~rarely~ said to be direct?

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Screen grab in the first minute, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThHRh6nDvc0
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