
Barry Stroud on Scepticism
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The Power of Perception
The problem is this, whatever looks as if in my perception could indicate to me that I'm not dreaming, does seem to be something that I could in fact actually dream. So he's looking for some kind of marker that indicates that the present perceptions are genuinely of the world and not of a dream. Well there's nothing to prevent you from dreaming and having a little red dot in your dream. Now that seems pretty powerful, do you think he was right that every experience could in principle be contained within a dream? well that's the, as we used to say, $64,000 question, but now it's $6.4 million question.
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