Groucho's Fact Hunt

[summerisle]

that doesn't sound real, you literally touch things, if you didn't no matter how small then you wouldn't feel it?

https://futurism.com/why-you-can-never-actually-touch-anything/

 

[Ashtonian]

https://futurism.com/why-you-can-never-actually-touch-anything/

I don't buy it.

How would you know what something felt like if we only percieve the feel of it? Plus are we also hovering when we go to sleep?

 

[summerisle]

I don't buy it.

How would you know what something felt like if we only percieve the feel of it? Plus are we also hovering when we go to sleep?

Try reading it.

 

[The Cowboy]

that doesn't sound real, you literally touch things, if you didn't no matter how small then you wouldn't feel it?

You need to think at an atomic level. All those protons and electrons attracting and repelling each other.

 

[Ashtonian]

Try reading it.

i did, and i still don't believe it. Don't believe that we perceive touch

 

[Ashtonian]

You need to think at an atomic level. All those protons and electrons attracting and repelling each other.

aye i get that part, it is the part in the article that we percieve touch rather than feel it. That is the part i don't buy

 

[summerisle]

i did, and i still don't believe it. Don't believe that we perceive touch

There's various strange phenomenon about touch : when some people lose a limb they imagine that they can still touch and feel said limb.

 

[The Cowboy]

aye i get that part, it is the part in the article that we percieve touch rather than feel it. That is the part i don't buy

Again, atomic level stuff. Think about the minute differences in atomic attraction and repulsion as you move your hand across the surface of something. Combine that with your brain expecting the texture of a surface, and there you go.

 

[The Cowboy]

There's various strange phenomenon about touch : when some people lose a limb they imagine that they can still touch and feel said limb.

Don't talk to Ash about losing a limb.

 

[Ashtonian]

Again, atomic level stuff. Think about the minute differences in atomic attraction and repulsion as you move your hand across the surface of something. Combine that with your brain expecting the texture of a surface, and there you go.

ok, one question then.

how do you feel things you don't expect to feel? Like something wet or hot that you don't know you are going to touch?

 

[The Cowboy]

ok, one question then.

how do you feel things you don't expect to feel? Like something wet or hot that you don't know you are going to touch?

Note the word 'combine'. Heat causes the atomic particles to move more rapidly, that's one way that the sensation will be felt. Wet, some other subatomic reaction.

I don't really think you're in any position to be doubting the laws of physics, buddy.

 

[Philw]

So if I stab someone, really they're just perceiving that I stabbed them? Wonder if that'll hold up in court...

 

[The Cowboy]

So if I stab someone, really they're just perceiving that I stabbed them? Wonder if that'll hold up in court...

I'd like to see the lawyers opening gambit. 'Your Honour, if we can please take this down to a subatomic level, you'll see that my client literally didn't touch the victim!'.

 

[Groucho]

The Doors Light My Fire fits over Steptoe And Son:

 

[The Cowboy]

The Doors Light My Fire fits over Steptoe And Son:

Hmmm. A bit of license being taken with the tempo and key there methinks...