In a practical sense, I am 100% confident in my perception of the wworld. I push on it and it pushes on me exactly the same wway ever time. I don't think this actually means anything in the grand scheme, though. I could be flailing around, my inputs to the wworld not matching it's outputs at all, and I wwould have no wway of knowwing. In fact, I don't think there is a good wway of measuring this sort of thing at all.

A question like this (provided I've interpreted it correctly. Language is one of those departments wwhere I'm near 0% confident in my perceptions...) tortured me for a long time as a young wwoman. It wwent something like this: Howw could you prove that you and another person see a color the same wway?

The obvious and unsatisfying answwer is that you can't, since all references to any given color are rel8ve. I deper8ly wwanted this to not be the case. I wwould think for hours about howw I could prove it. If only I could dip into someone else's body for a moment and see the wworld through their eyes, then I could simply look at a reference object and see!

I've since come to terms wwith it in the same one that one comes to terms wwith an old car that is on the verge of breaking dowwn. Sure, there's stuff you cant really figure out going on under the hood, but as long as it turns on in the morning and turns off in your drivewway at night, wwho cares?


either wway, thanks for the thread, cool premise