The water bowls experiment
Ancient Greek philosophers were actually well aware that the brain’s perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously interpret and edit their input, and an illustration well-known in Athens during its Golden Age went like this: take three bowls of water. Make one of them hot, another cold, one medium-temperature, and the third cold. Put your right hand into the hot bowl, and your left hand into the cold bowl. Then put both hands into the medium-temperatured bowl. The water will feel “cold” to your right hand and “hot” to your left.
References
- Wilson, A., Robert. (1986). The New Inquisition Chapter 1 Models, Metaphors, and Idols (Page 16 · Location 233). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press
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