What Is The Connection Between Moore's Theory And Skepticism Of The External World?

Can we truly see our external world? Am I typing this essay right now? Do I know there is a coffee cup sitting on the table next to my laptop? These are all questions that G.E. Moore attempts to answer in his essay, “Some Main Problems of Philosophy” (Moore 1958). Moore proposes a then-revolutionary idea of “Sense Data,” (28) which represents all the data received through the senses, hence the name “Sense Data.” In this essay, I plan to decipher the nebulous world of Sense Data, and deconstruct Moore’s claims with my own soul-field theory. Further, I will debate connections between Moore’s theory and skepticism of the external world. Sense Data describes the direct signals your brain receives and interprets every day. Moore’s own definition of Sense Data is “things given or presented by the senses.” (30) In modern context, every time you look out the window or talk to someone over lunch, you are receiving a multitude of individual Sense Data points. When you choose a book from the library, Moore claims that you are not seeing the book “object,” but instead all of the Sense Data your body is, in that exact moment, capable of interpreting about the book “object.” According to Moore, Sense Data exists in this purely analytical form alone; it provides no …show more content…
The data is sent through the brain, analyzed, and returned to what many call the “soul,” the essential spectral part of us that turns our brains into minds. In essence, the soul is what makes humans “human.” Although we do indeed receive raw data, I would argue that what we see, as humans, is interpreted by a separate part of our body and returned as more than just data. With the passage through the soul, like the Higgs Boson giving mass, the Sense Data achieves greater attributes beyond just raw information. I believe the Sense Data is given context, relation, and