Inevitable
Deist.
- Jun 16, 2014
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We had perception of the virus before we could see it. People get sick, they perceive it that way. People were aware that the flu existed before microscopes that could see it existed. They experienced the effects of it.I can see it, apparently the people that took the picture can as well. So it seems there is perception of it. We use microscopes to enhance our perception.
And before you enhanced your perception, you had none with this. The organisms still existed before we were able to perceive them. They were still just as important. Your statement was; If we can't perceive it, it's not important. You're wrong. I am right. Get used to that.
If the virus makes people sick than we have perception of it. Sickness is perceivable. We did have perception of it. Fever, body aches, symptoms and so forth. That is perception.
Perception is the effect it has on us. If we have no perception it has no effect. You are conflating perception with seeing. We can't see viruses, but we do get sick. We feel them. Just like heat. We can't see it yet we can still perceive it
You are saying because we can't see things they aren't perceivable. We can't see heat yet we perceive it.
per·cep·tion
pərˈsepSH(ə)n/
noun
1. the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
Our perception is limited. We have five physical senses and we're not the BEST at any of them. Some organisms have better sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. And it's not just that they are better, in some cases they are extraordinarily better. So... We have these five totally inferior senses as humans, and you believe that is the "end all-be all" to the entire universe? Only the things that our feeble human senses can detect are worthwhile?
You may like to know that you have now officially dismissed 96% of the universe as inconsequential and unimportant. Dark energy and dark matter.... called that because they contradict our laws of physics with regard to matter and energy. All the things that make up physical material existence in our universe only represents about 4% of the total volume. 75% of that (3%) is the helium and hydrogen which make up the stars. The remaining 1% is everything else... you and I, all the other elements in the table of elements, the compounds, minerals, enzymes, proteins, organisms, water, carbon, ice... all the "stuff" we see, feel, hear, touch and taste... 1% of the universe.
Our perception isn't limited to the five senses. When I come down with the flu, I know it. I don't smell, touch, taste, see, or hear it. You clearly don't understand what perception is.
I can perceive vast complexity in just one percent of all matter, must mean we are excellent at perceiving things that exist.