Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 122 of 171
Trust the speeding bus anyway
Even if our experience of the world is fundamentally no different from a hallucination, we should take our conscious experience of the world very seriously. Hoffman uses the example of seeing a bus speeding toward us as we walk across the street. We had better trust this experience, even though it does not require us to believe in the literal truth of the experience. To recapitulate Kant’s dictum: “If our subjective constitution be removed, the represented object, with the qualities which sensible intuition bestows upon it, is nowhere to be found, and cannot possibly be found. For it is this subjective constitution which determines its form and appearance.”