Originally Posted by
Ananda Sahaj
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'Okay. Now, there are many possible refutations of this idealist position. Perhaps as the thread develops we can look at those.
I will bring the standard realist response to this position. That is, what causes wrong perception? If a rope did not exist out there, independent of the perceiving mind, why do we conceptually perceive a rope sometimes but other times we wrongly perceive a snake?'
I am not saying it is 'wrong' perception, i am only saying the perception is different and depends on which view one has on phenomens. If one can see the difference between form and non-form one will have a different experience then if one cannot because one will see experience is very relative to conditions. This changes our whole outlook on things. And these changes are desirable imo'
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'More generally, how do you differentiate between veridical and false cognitions? If objects exist only in cognitions why should a cognition misfire?'
We experience what we experience, it does not matter if it is 'real' or 'unreal' these are again concepts, which again is fine.
but it is indeed valuable to see our conceptualisation.
that there are no unchanging independent (absolute) objects outside of our experience. this realization gives the experience of freedom which is enjoyable
still our experience remains valuable, nothing wrong with it, it just is not as absolute as most people tend to think
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