Terrapin Station wrote: ↑February 12th, 2020, 2:40 pm
If you're only aware of a mental model you create you can't arrive at knowing that you're navigating the external world. What seems to be an external world and the navigation of it could be only your mental model.
I'm not going to repeat this again. Your sensory input and mental processes are constantly adding new information to your mental contents, thereby constantly updating your your mental model. As such, you become aware on new information.
"If the perception of the external world in your mind in no way resembled the actual external world, you would be unable to navigate the external world"--that's making the assumption that there's an external world to navigate in the first place, but if you're only aware of a mental model you create, you can't arrive at knowing there's an external world to navigate, that your model needs to resemble in some way.
I have established that there is an external objective reality. This is not an assumption, but the logical extension of the existence of self. Of course, you blankly dismissed this demonstration because your position is that logic has nothing to do with philosophy.
I'm sorry you're having a hard time understanding my model, but there's a simple solution to that. Rather than assume that my model fits into one of the cookie-cutter philosophical schools of thought that you're familiar with, try simply reading what I actually write without preconceived notions.