Beau Latto
Appearances
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1076: Wine Fraud | Skeptical Sunday
There is a world out there, but we don't see it as it is. So this isn't philosophy. This is just laws of physics. So if a tree falls in the wind, no one's there to hear it. Does it make a sound? No. It creates energy, but the sound is a construct of your brain. So the tree exists, the energy exists, but your brain then turns that into something useful, which is sound.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1076: Wine Fraud | Skeptical Sunday
light all the light that's coming around us right it's bouncing off objects and then it's changing when it's an object and then it comes to our eyes right but our retina has no access to the light directly nor to the surfaces all it literally has access to is energy And that's where your brain is actually constructing a meaning. And it's that meaning that you're seeing.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1076: Wine Fraud | Skeptical Sunday
You're not seeing the energy. You're detecting the energy, but you're not seeing it. Language is not a construct of the world. Think about perceptions of pain. Is pain an illusion? Of course it's not an illusion. It's a meaningful perception. But it's not something that exists in the world. There aren't painful things in the world. If we weren't here, pain would not exist.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1076: Wine Fraud | Skeptical Sunday
We can't hear the five sounds of A that people in Scandinavia use, for instance. We can't see certain shades of red that Russians can see. Really? Yeah. And it's only when you have awareness of why you're doing what you're doing that creates the possibility of doing it differently. Now, of course, if you don't have eyes, you can't choose to see.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1076: Wine Fraud | Skeptical Sunday
You still have to function in a world that has gravity, that has light. But we have more freedom than we think we do. We have more agency than we think we do. So the world is always changing and complexifying, and we need to complexify with it. And we never could if we always just see it as it really is.