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Old 08-19-2005, 12:04 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Robaggio
Reality is what can be perceived by the 5 senses. When senses get messed up, so does reality. You arn't walking down a path to religious enlightenment, your brain is just incapable of applying labels to what it has sensed. When the brain is incapable of applying labels to something, then it fills in the gaps the best it can- wierd things are felt.
So obviously ultraviolet light, super-high frequency sound, and atoms aren't real because they can't be perceived by our five senses.

I find it amusing that such a hardcore empiricist, so enthralled with science, would make a statement that blatantly dismisses enormous areas of all of the natural sciences. Irony, thy name is Robaggio.
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