Visualization And Mind-Independent Actions Analysis

Visualization and Mind-Independent Objects Visualization in its entirety is using different techniques to communicate a message through images, diagrams, animations etc. In producing these diagrams or images, data must be collected and organized to form the actual visualization. However, can we be sure that data collected are reliable? People may have different sense and experiences and collect different data from the same data source. If that is the case, then are our sense wrong or are the sources not reliable in the first place? In Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley simulates dialogues between two philosophers to try to show that mind-independent objects may not exist, and that the world is only made up of our senses. Berkeley’s Dialogues begin with two philosophers, Philonous and Hylas, running into each other while strolling through a college campus. Hylas expresses that he is concerned with some of the ideas that other philosophers believe in. He thinks that those “who believe nothing at all (skepticism)” and those “who believe the most extravagant things in the world” are not doing the philosophical community justice and are misleading common people. He fears that if a common person hears about things that directly contradict common sense from a philosopher, that they will themselves start to …show more content…
Hylas is glad that Philonous doesn’t hold the same outrageous view as some of their colleagues, namely the view that no mind-independent material objects exist in the world, and that everything only exists in people’s minds as ideas. Philonous quickly corrects Hylas in that he does in fact believe in this very view. In response to Hylas’ confusion on this topic, Philonous explains that his view is the most commonsensical of them all and that he will demonstrate what he