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How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Magical Realist - Oct 25, 2026
We perceive that we just lost power and the lights went out. We perceive when the fan stops blowing on us. We perceive when our freezer suddenly shuts off. Why? Is not perception simply the consciousness of sentience? It must be more than that. Somehow it happens when there is just a change in the stream of sensory data. The possibility of perception lying in the immediate felt contrast between 1 and the 0. The positive and the negative. The awakening contrast between what is phenomenally happening and what has just ceased happening. And then the qualitative change of that perception when the alternation between the two states increases in frequency so much they seem like one continuously felt state. The emergence of the mental experience of color and music and other qualia. And the usefulness of the mathematical morpheme of the waveform (and their troughs) in physics, which is a spatial representation of the alternation of events and non-events happening in time.
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Syne - Oct 25, 2026
So... you have a thread devoted to all your random musings... but keep making countless threads that no one replies to.
Now, don't go getting all triggered and offended. Just pointing out the obvious.
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Magical Realist - Oct 25, 2026
Jealous again?
Just fuck off.
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Syne - Oct 25, 2026
Well, got triggered anyway. 9_9
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Magical Realist - Oct 25, 2026
This from the troll too ball-less to ever post anything and instead just complains and whines when other people do.
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Syne - Oct 25, 2026
Yep, I've NEVER posted a thread on this forum... EVER. 9_9
Or... I have, but I'm not narcissistic enough to think my every random musing deserves attention. Just random thoughts and too lazy or solipsistic to even look up any sources as a basis for discussion.
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Magical Realist - Oct 25, 2026
Quote:Or... I have, but I'm not narcissistic enough to think my every random musing deserves attention. Just random thoughts and too lazy or solipsistic to even look up any sources as a basis for discussion.
Well that's the nature of being in a discussion group--to stimulate discussion. But I'm not going to evaluate the content of my threads based on whether anyone responds. I'd say about 80% of everything CC posts, which is like maybe 70 % of what gets posted here, doesn't get a response. And they are really good quality posts. Just like mine are. Do you think she's an attention-craving narcissist too?
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Syne - Oct 25, 2026
CC posts articles. Often informative even if it doesn't elicit reply. Random personal musings... not so much. But you'd understand that if you had a working theory of mind. But by all means... cry about it some more. Keep telling us that your random personal musings are equivalent to articles about news, science, etc.. Yeah, nothing narcissistic about that. Actually, you seem pretty happy that I replied, seeing how eager you are to engage with what you call "troll... complains and whines." See, for attention-seekers, any attention is good attention. Makes you feel special.
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Magical Realist - Oct 25, 2026
Quote:CC posts articles. Often informative even if it doesn't elicit reply. Random personal musings... not so much.
So why is copying and pasting an article here somehow better than thinking an original thought or asking a provocative question? Have you ever actually really thought about anything in your whole life instead of just mechanically reciting your in-group beliefs and boring cliche positions? Of course you haven't. Your constant need to attack and malign anyone who does exposes you as entirely incapable of it and so resentful when others do it. Which btw only you ever does here. I feel sorry for you. Is this what you wanted to be when you were a kid?
RE: How do we perceive cessations of sensory stimulations? - Syne - Oct 25, 2026
Random personal musings are not insightful nor particularly original. This is why your personal thread for your supposed creative writing is just an echo chamber of one. LOL! I'm an artist, writer, and inventor. But I don't feel a need for other people to validate those things (though I do have ideas I don't want stolen). But I get it. You like to stereotype and pigeonhole people as a defense mechanism. Since you lack any real emotional intelligence or sufficient theory of mind, you have to assume anything that differs from your experience must be the opposite. You cannot fathom how someone could both have original thoughts AND not find yours "insightful."