![]() "This time I mean functionally, how do you know? Where is knowledge biologically in the brain?" "Of course, you have to know what the words bhachelor and unmharried mean in the first place." ![]() "All bhachelors are unmharried because that's how we define the word bhachelor." "I don't have to go survey every bhachelor on earth to know that that is true." ![]() "An example would be the statement all bhachelors are unmharried. "These are things that we know a priori." "without needing to even leave the house, things that we can know as true by reason alone." "Luckily, there are things that we can know without needing proof," "those justifications might be irrational or they might be rational, they might be based on proof, but don't get too confident because proven is not a synonym for true." "Plato famously said that the things we know are things that are true, that we believe and that we have justification for believing." "The philosophy of knowledge, the study of knowing, is called epistemology." "the only tools we have to get what's out there in here." "It's pretty freaky and cool and a little humbling, because it shows the limits of the accuracy of our senses," "where your tongue usually is but isn't when it's upside down." "So, when you touch the right side of your tongue when it's flipped over to your left side you perceive a sensation on the opposite side," ![]() "Our brains never needed to develop an understanding of upside down tongue touch." "Your tongue will be able to feel your finger, but in the wrong place." Run your finger along the outer edge of the tip of your upside down tongue." "There are optical illusions, audio illusions, temperature sensation illusions, even tactile illusions." "We have way more than five senses, we have at least twice as many and then some." "It allows you to tell where your fingers and arms and head and legs in your body is all in relation to each other without having to look or touch other things." "This is what the police evaluate during a field sobriety test." "For instance, your kinesthetic sense, proprioception." "In fact, we have way more than the usual five senses we talk about." "Your senses are a great way to learn things." ![]() "I can feel them, they're right here and that's good." "You might say, well, I know where my fingers are." ![]()
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