I know it’s beyond doubt because I am currently experiencing something at this exact moment. Surely you experience things as well and know exactly what I’m talking about. There are no set of words I could use to explain this any better.
You are talking about experience of certainty. I’m asking why do you trust it?
I know it’s beyond doubt because I am currently experiencing something at this exact moment.
That’s a description of a system, where your experience directly hijacks your feeling of certainty. You wouldn’t say that “I know it’s beyond doubt there is a blue sky, because blue light hits my eyes at this exact moment” is a valid justification for absolute certainty. Even if you feel certain about some part of reality, you can contemplate being wrong, right? Why don’t say “I’m feeling certain, but I understand the possibility of being wrong” the same way you can say about there being blue sky? The possibility is physically possible (I described it). It’s not even phenomenologically unimaginable—it would feel like misremembering.
Why insist on describing your experience as “knowledge”? It’s not like you have perfect evidence for a fact “experience is knowledge”, you just have a feeling of certainty.
And if seeing-neurons of someone’s brain are in the state of seeing red, but they are thinking and saying that they see blue, would you say they are right?
I know it’s beyond doubt because I am currently experiencing something at this exact moment. Surely you experience things as well and know exactly what I’m talking about. There are no set of words I could use to explain this any better.
You are talking about experience of certainty. I’m asking why do you trust it?
That’s a description of a system, where your experience directly hijacks your feeling of certainty. You wouldn’t say that “I know it’s beyond doubt there is a blue sky, because blue light hits my eyes at this exact moment” is a valid justification for absolute certainty. Even if you feel certain about some part of reality, you can contemplate being wrong, right? Why don’t say “I’m feeling certain, but I understand the possibility of being wrong” the same way you can say about there being blue sky? The possibility is physically possible (I described it). It’s not even phenomenologically unimaginable—it would feel like misremembering.
Why insist on describing your experience as “knowledge”? It’s not like you have perfect evidence for a fact “experience is knowledge”, you just have a feeling of certainty.
And if seeing-neurons of someone’s brain are in the state of seeing red, but they are thinking and saying that they see blue, would you say they are right?