Originally Posted by
Taosaur
This fallacy is part of what I'm trying to point out. We aren't "fed" anything through our senses. Perception is a very active process subject to conditioning and bias, and memory moreso. There's only a certain range of stimuli available in any given setting, yes, but even in a bland environment, that range is orders of magnitude greater than what we actually apprehend. We are actively reimagining our surroundings and refocusing our senses on a constant basis. Except by accident or devoted practice, it's rare for an adult with a lifetime of conditioning--not only coarse effects like conscious beliefs, but more subtle habits of how they see and hear--to directly experience anything.
Some phenomena, physical or mental, shared or concealed, have broader effects, physical or mental, shared or concealed, than others. We don't have total control over the physical or the imaginary. And how, as a physical being in a physical world, would you do or experience anything, even in your mind, that has "no direct physical effect?" The effects may be great and far reaching or minor and contained, but they're not solely a function of physicality.