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Originally Posted by peacegirl
I already told you that there is nothing being transmitted, or conveyed, so this really doesn't relate to relativity. You are using that term very loosely. I agree that if you use this reasoning, you will conclude that real time seeing is impossible because you can't convey something instantaneously. But if nothing is being conveyed (only seen; which is instantaneous), it then gets processed into information, which takes time. This does not contradict the theory of relativity in my opinion. If the lightsource (such as lightning) is causing one to see an object relative to his position, efferent vision does not negate this phenomenon.
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Again, you're either lying outright or you're being idiotic.
"Seeing" is acquisition of information
by definition. If you're seeing something, you're taking in information about it.
To take the hypothetical example Lessans used, when the Sun comes on, the information ("the Sun is now shining") originates with the Sun. You admitted this yourself. You even noted that it was
obviously true.
When someone on Earth sees the light from the newly-ignited Sun, then just as obviously, his or her brain has acquired that information ("the Sun is now shining") -- by some means. It doesn't matter
in the slightest how the information got from the Sun to his or her brain.
According to Lessans, the information ("the Sun is now shining") is acquired
immediately.
According to Einstein, there is
no way that the information can be acquired in less than 8.5 minutes.
They can't both be correct.