Here is a video of the Ames’ Window effect — a window that looks rectangular but is actually a trapezoid.
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Maybe my eyes are broken, but it never doesn’t look like a trapezoid to me.
It’s always a trapezoid to me, too.
However, I do perceive the “oscillation” illusion.
Our sight–the sense we use everyday of our lives and the one we’ve become experts at interpreting–can easily be fooled. On the other hand, the “sensus divinatus”–the sense that deals with a purported world wholly unlike this one and which, if it exists, rarely touches our daily experience–is infallibly reliable.
Or something like that.
Can the religious believer describe a method whereby some other person can reliably differentiate between the believer’s GOD faith and GOD fantasy? If there is no way for others to distinguish a believer’s faith from fantasy then is what sense can the believers assertions regarding their GOD be regarded as knowledge?
It’s reliably justified in much the same manner that sensory data is justified as being veridical: intersubjectively. Many people report the same or categorically similar, repeatable experiences independently. Now, that ground may be easily attacked as insufficient by a Humean skeptic, but then you end up laying waste to far more epistemological ground than that which religious faith relies upon.
Sensory data does not need to be human sensory data. We have now equipment that can see in UV, X-rays, hear subsonic, ultasound, sense magnetic fields…. If all these fail then it is something that doe snot interact with this reality so ther is no point in talking about it since it has no influence.
Sensory machines don’t get you anywhere, since humans are still only made aware of their results by their own senses, i.e. you can only be aware of the results of an x-ray because you see the film with your eyes.
Now I’ve broken it =-(. Once I’d forced myself to follow the actual shape moving around in a circle, the illusion no longer works =-(.
I’d watch the video again, and when the illusion starts to kick in my mind goes “wait, remember that the shape is a parallelogram with a stick in the middle making a circle!” And poof! Reality ensues.
Just the same as with religion. I’ve broken that too =-(
Brg.
Ooops!
I meant “trapezoid” instead of “parallelogram”!!!!! Should have written:
“Now I’ve broken it =-(. Once I’d forced myself to follow the actual shape moving around in a circle, the illusion no longer works =-(.
I’d watch the video again, and when the illusion starts to kick in my mind goes “wait, remember that the shape is a trapezoid with a stick in the middle making a circle!” And poof! Reality ensues.
Just the same as with religion. I’ve broken that too =-(
Brg.”