>>94638513They're not lying, they're just thinking of it in a different way than you do. See, with these mental things there's not an external object we can all use as a common frame of reference. This is entirely an internal process that no one else can perceive and you're trying to externalize it.
Consider the sandwich chart. You possess an internal concept of a sandwich that falls somewhere on the chart. Not everyone falls in the same spot as you. Everyone is externalizing this internal concept in slightly different ways, likely making some compromises somewhere or another for the sake of consensus. You can produce vicious arguments for and against a given position. However, ultimately, this is quibbling over a definition of your *concept* of a sandwich, something that exists only in your head. All of the contention arises from our inability to perfectly evoke that form of sandwich that exists in our heads and reckon that with reality.
I believe a lot of these discussions about cognition are sandwich chart arguments. It's arguing about things in your head that are impossible to perfectly articulate in a universally agreeable way, regardless of any underlying objective realities.
