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Optical illusions

שו”תCategory: generalOptical illusions
asked 6 years ago

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Hello Rabbi Michi,
I saw a video that, after presenting many optical illusions (of the senses) and then showing how wrong we have been and continue to be wrong about them, claims that the reasonable conclusion is not to trust our senses at all. Rather, “reality” is like Descartes’ demon ~ such idealism ~.
The rabbi certainly thinks that this is not the reasonable conclusion, and so do I intuitively feel, but why? This is not exactly ordinary skepticism without any real reason, there are dozens of examples here in which we fail in succession second after second. And we don’t always even realize that we were wrong until it is pointed out to us.


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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago
If we made a mistake in a math exercise, does that mean that we should assume that every exercise we solve is wrong? On the contrary, the very fact that we classify things as mistakes shows that we have a hidden assumption that there are also true perceptions, and that these are exceptions. Just as we believe the conclusion that these are illusions, we must believe the conclusion that other things are not illusions. Otherwise, you know neither the truth nor that illusions exist.

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