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As we are in the Physics section, more discussion of linguistics would be off topic. But I will quickly note that Japanese verbs "encode" time in various ways: some describe a state, others a change of state. Now, let's see some math! 🙂

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Memory is very unreliable and easy to manipulate. Elizabeth Loftus on "Radiolab": https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91569-memory-and-forgetting The thing is that once people have these false memories they will be absolutely certain they are true because the only referent they have to confirm it is ... there memory. And as Ten oz points out, even if you "know" intellectually that you are wrong your memory is still just as real as it was before you knew that. This is relevant to understanding the Mandela Effect, UFO sightings, and many other things that depend only on eye witness accounts.

The word "arrive" is related to "river" and "riparian" (= related to river banks) because it originally meant "to arrive by boat".

The green ones are correct(ish) for the German and Swedish (the root is, presumably, something like and[e]r-) but that has no connection to the Romance/English words. There the analysis should be di(s) + ferre (to carry) + an ending that indicates a noun derived from the verb (gerund maybe? my Latin knowledge is approximately zero). Change and cambio are related and from Latin. But Latin got it from Celtic.

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That is a very good point. (I have seen he same argument extended to say that external reality must therefore be completely different than we perceive, which I find harder to swallow). I was going to say that we can, when not under that pressure, look at all the colour variations, stop to smell the roses, and join the Cloud Appreciation Society. But actually, there are colours we can't see, odours we can't smell etc. So the world is bigger and more complex than our senses allow. (But that's why we have science!)

The website seems to cover just about every conspiracy going from physics to "freeman of the land" (but not "the Apollo missions were faked" oddly). It is therefore a handy guide to things to ignore or dismiss as nonsense without further investigation.

You couldn't be be more wrong if your name were Wrongy McWrongface and you posted this in the wrong forum on the wrongest day of the year after passing the text through an electric wrongifier.

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In that case, I might use your question: why would the mind create a model very different from the external reality? (And why would everyone's minds appear to do roughly the same thing?)

Don't forget time: magnetic and electric fields propagate at the speed of light. So you have length height width time. We could do with a shorthand name for that. Oh, I know: space-time. Brilliant! And it may be worth noting that electric charges and magnetism are unified (as electromagnetism) by ... wait for it ... you're not going to like this ... relativity.

! Moderator Note Moved to Physics Just to be clear, are you asking because you want to understand it, or to try and persuade your relative? (I'm not sure that makes much difference, other than I would say it is futile to try and argue someone out of a position like that.)

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! Moderator Note Moved to Speculations. (I must be feeling very generous.) What evidence do you have for that? Can you explain how you think the Big Bang might be relevant? Are you talking about magnetism (where each object has both a north and south pole) or electric charge where things are either negative or positive? Why wouldn't all the negatively charged rocks repel each other and disrupt the rings? How strong are these fields you are talking about? Can you calculate the forces involved to show that your idea is plausible? Do you not have gravity where you live? Do you have to tie yourself to your chair while typing? How is that related to the [non]existence of gravity? They did? Can you provide a reference for this, because it is news to me. So you don't think that length, height and width make up space? Or is it just time that doesn't exist?

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There are people with schizophrenia, or other disorders, who are fully aware that the voices or visual hallucinations are not real, but that make them appear any less real. I heard an interview with a woman who had schizophrenia and said she knew the voices were not real, but it was still very hard to put up with "people" continually shouting abuse at her. It was quite sad.

I suspect they might score higher in things like compassion and empathy? I think that is a good argument. On the other hand, a schizophrenic cannot stop hearing the voices even if they are self-aware to know that they are purely a product of their mind. So, if solipsism were real, it doesn't necessarily follow that you would have arbitrary control over your world. Agreed. It is useful as introduction to the processes of philosophy and not much beyond that.

That is why I don't believe it. But it is important to know that it is just a belief. There is no way of empirically testing it. That is an interesting (and quite different) question. I saw an article recently about how the web of a spider can be considered an extension of their sensory organs, and possibly even their consciousness. And from the psychological side, there have been studies of how people perceive the difference between internal and external (self and outside world). Some people draw a very clear boundary, others see themselves as just part of the world with no clear distinction. These views correlate with other things like religiosity, etc. (I read about that years ago, so there is no way I could find it again, unfortunately.)

The 600 words posted by Janus are worth more than a couple of hours of video

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Our mind tells us that everyone else has a similar view of the world. 🙂 We have no independent way of establishing that. I know this starts to sound like solipsism. But solipsism is unfalsifiable. (I should stress that I am a "realist": I think there is a world "out there" and that it is pretty much exactly as we perceive it. But I also know that there can be no support for such a view.)

Can it? After all the only way we know anything about the external observable word is through our mind. There is no way of distinguishing between the mind presenting us with a view of the external world and the mind inventing the external world.

So, the question is: Is education being reinvented / restructured [because of the pandemic]? Probably. But as with so much of the "the world has changed" hype, I suspect that it will only be a short term change. Before long, everything will be back exactly as it was before.