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Is Anything Real?

2013-06-03

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UNANSWERED QUESTIONS MEGA-COLLAB: http://youtu.be/UFydagCS9fg

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LINKS/SOURCES:

music by: http://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow/

song at end: "Pious Reflection" by Paul Mottram downloaded from http://www.audionetwork.com/

it's on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kszd5IGq_k

Human senses:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/question242.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

Color illusion: http://loriputnampaints.blogspot.com.es/2010_03_01_archive.html

Audio illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VMfdG873E

temperature illusion: http://exs.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/hot-and-cold/

Tactile illusions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_illusion

epistemology wiki pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistomology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_justification

proof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_(truth)

http://thesaurus.com/browse/proof

a priori truth [pdf]: http://consequently.org/papers/apriori.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_priori_and_a_posteriori_(philosophy)

rotating brain gif: http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~dow/Space_software/Space_animations/rotating_brain.gif

neuroscience of memory:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/309/5731/92.full

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroanatomy_of_memory

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-location-of-memories-individual-neurons

http://www.brainfacts.org/sensing-thinking-behaving/learning-and-memory/articles/2012/storing-memories/

LTP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwp5sfsy-hI

http://www.expertsmind.com/topic/neuroscience/long-term-potentiation-93811.aspx

engrams: http://brainsandcognition.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/the-ever-elusive-engram/

storage of human brain: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory-capacity

SKYentists: https://twitter.com/nice_mustard/status/339767730230157312

philosophy of science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology

The Matrix defense:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/11/09/the_matrix_defense/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_defense

solipsism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

http://philosophynow.org/issues/57/How_Can_I_Know_Anything_At_All

http://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10

Martin Gardner books:

http://bit.ly/19CvvoG

http://amzn.to/Zou74W

why cats like keyboards: http://kotaku.com/5991046/why-cats-love-sitting-on-keyboards


Proprioception
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all bachelors are unmarried
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Long-term potentiation
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How do you know?
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egocentric predicament
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Solipsism
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