Albert Halliday

This is an update of For Perceivers of the World, Light is Already Here. This version expands and extends the argument put in the original.

A problem that affects all perceivers, on looking out into Space, is, at night, if the Milky Way is populated by uncountable billions of stars, why is Earth’s night ‘sky’ not full of white light? In this essay, I attempt to answer that question.

Light is emitted by objects, and forms a ‘bridge’ to the eye of perceivers. If, during daylight, ambient space is full of light then, on turning to look at an object, light rays from perceivable objects are at the perceiver prior to looking. This essay sets out to explain that argument.

A problem that affects all perceivers, on looking out into Space, is, at night, if Space is populated by many billions of Stars, why is Earth’s ‘sky’ not full of white light? In this essay, I attempt to answer that question. My explanation is ‘mechanical’, but there is no alternative.

This is a more detailed version of the original. I argue that Space appears dark, because perceives 'look through' it to the dark Void - the region beyond Space. The Void, as in the black box experiment, emits no electromagnetic rays back to perceivers.

I read recently that the space between stars is black. I was aware of that, but gave it no thought. This essay is my explanation why--there are no walls in space.

This essay looks at electromagnet rays and their role in visual perception. It is an update of the earlier version, of similar title.

This is a broad summary of my thinking on EM rays and their role in visual perception. It focuses mainly on ambient space and the ramifications of that.

In this paper I argue that interest in light was, and is, an ongoing area of interest in the philosophy of visual perception. I then argue that 'light' is not a real entity, and that light rays are opaque. It should follow that the philosophy of direct perception of real objects is not sound.

This essay positions consciousness in the content field--also known as the visual field; it is an initial essay, providing a general overview of my thinking on this problem.

This short paper will argue that light waves are a barrier to visual knowledge of the objective world: that light is not transparent, in that it is a block on all possible knowledge of real objects, and that the objective world is permanently closed to the eye of the observer. (This is a shorter version of my original paper of this title.)