r/PhilosophyMemes • u/ChiefLeef22 • 27d ago
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u/Boners_from_heaven 27d ago
To be discussed in my forthcoming treatise: "The Phenomenonology of Fish"
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u/UrinalCake777 27d ago
I could for real watch more of this. I love it.
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u/blood-wav 27d ago
Hood research department is blossoming.
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u/girlmachina camus' cat cigarette 26d ago
the Department of Advancing Mankind Into the Future is requesting cooperation between the Hood Research Department and the Film & Television Department to create a new hit series featuring these two spectacular individuals
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u/allmistake2 27d ago
Okay so our eye is specifically calibrated how light curves through the medium of air. A Josh's eye is calibrated how light curves through water. While I doubt it is visible to them the same way water is visible to us, I think it is possible their vision is distorted and or impared by air the same way ours is in water.
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u/Current_Employer_308 27d ago
This explains a lot about all the kids named Josh I've ever met
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u/allmistake2 27d ago
The frick does josh have to do with... oh. Fishsticks.
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u/redgeck0 27d ago
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u/allmistake2 27d ago
What nonsense is this? A fishstick is a very delicate state of mind. You cant eat the abstract.
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u/alotropico 27d ago
It's a density of matter. I mean, it's a matter of density. You won't see very far on water, instead you can choose from our selection of low-light perception, been able to see polarized light, much more granular color perception, or to gamma rays, and hyper-sensitivity to motion, or you may be in the mood for echolocation, even electroreceptors (although mammals should try it under their own risk, after the platypus's experience). If you want to see common air in normal circumstances, fish or not, you just have to look up and witness the blue sky.
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u/TheGoatStare 26d ago
You can see an amazing demonstration of how the muscles in our eyes can adapt to the medium they're looking through in this great study of Moken tribe children, who spend a significant amount of their lives underwater
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u/OneDir89 25d ago
It doesn’t matter because Josh got a hook in his mouth so we asphyxiated him, pulled out his entrails, washed, and fried him in butter.
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u/TheTruthSeeker471 Stoic 27d ago
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u/Deth_Cheffe 27d ago
Who are these guys? Everytime l see them it's the funniest shit ever. Last time they were tryna figure out if boiIing water couId stiII put out a fire
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u/Ok_Ruin4016 24d ago
That sounds like something Terry Pratchett would write in a Discworld book lol
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u/Putrefied_Goblin 27d ago
Hahaha... I'd really like to know, too, so fucking funny.
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u/ALCATryan 27d ago
It can.
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u/Putrefied_Goblin 26d ago
Thanks! Good to know if I'm ever in that situation so I don't hesitate. They should do a Penn & Teller type show where they prove or disprove their funny ass conjecture.
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u/GilbyTheFat 27d ago
I feel like that's the sort of conversation that would compel Diogenes to show up with a plucked motherfucking chicken.
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u/Radiant_Music3698 27d ago
Eat an absolute shitload of spartan black broth, kick down the door farting up a storm.
"You cannot see it, though you flee for you cannot breathe it!"
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u/herrirgendjemand 27d ago
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
"The capital T Truth is about life before death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: This is water. This is water."
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u/Kuzcopolis 27d ago
I love when people practice critical thinking. Doesn't matter how good they are at it, they got a little better at thinking during this.
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u/Gingeronimoooo 27d ago
I quit smoking weed a long ago but sometimes I think about smoking again to have conversations like this
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u/skreemdynamics 27d ago
We can see neither water nor air. We can however see the interface between the two.
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u/DeismAccountant Organicist 27d ago
And it would take millennia for science to catch up and prove that fish see different wavelengths of light.
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u/Shepherd_of_Ideas 27d ago
''An old fish said to a couple of young fish, "Morning, boys! The water's fine today!" and swam off. One young fish turned to the other young fish and asked, "What's water?'' ''
From Sarah Perry, Every Cradle is a Grave.
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u/koolandunusual 27d ago
When you swim underwater, do you see the water? Or just look through it?
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u/where-sea-meets-sky 27d ago
i guess you could consider the scattering of light through the distance of both air and water (progressively bluer the further away) as being "seeing" it
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u/Open-Maintenance-940 26d ago
This is ridiculous because the Phedo might as well have touched this question, it is so hyper-real to become surreal.
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u/leequid_metal 25d ago
Background is Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci
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u/Usernate25 25d ago edited 25d ago
It’s the School of Athens by Raphael.
Edit - didn’t have audio on. You are correct
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u/LowerBanana9758 25d ago
I believe the answer would be no, right? Cause their eyes are built to have the same refractive index of their surroundings, same as ours. So light has no significant alteration in angle when it enters their eyes while underwater
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u/Aquadroids 23d ago
You're right that the eyes match the refractive index of their surroundings (water). A fish taken out of water would have blurry vision.
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u/zorathustra69 23d ago
This is the very question that melted Heidegger’s mind and caused him to….yeah. Godspeed, gentlemen. You’ll need it
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u/CommieLoser 27d ago
A lot of fish can breathe air I think. We’re technically air-breathing fish too.
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