Broggly comments on Three Dialogues on Identity - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 April 2008 06:13AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (44)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Kenny_Easwaran 23 April 2008 08:12:40PM -1 points [-]

"human eyes function the same way that camera lenses do, and that you make an image of a thing every time you look at it."

Cameras make a visible image of something. Eyes don't.

Comment author: Broggly 22 October 2011 02:49:15PM 3 points [-]

I'd think they do. Surely in principle someone could see the image of whatever you're looking at reflected off the retina from the inside of your eye. It's only not visible in the sense that nobody's inside your eyeball and the image is probably very dim.