Descartes Was Right Pool Sign

Descartes was right, the senses are unreliable

A man wearing sunglasses stands in a swimming pool, mostly submerged, while holding a white sign above the water that says “Descartes was right, the senses are unreliable.” The joke combines Descartes’ philosophical skepticism about sensory perception with a deliberately ironic visual demonstration: the man’s body appears distorted or partly missing underwater, making the senses look unreliable. EN: A man wearing sunglasses stands in a swimming pool, mostly submerged, while holding a white sign above the water that says “Descartes was right, the senses are unreliable.” The joke combines Descartes’ philosophical skepticism about sensory perception with a deliberately ironic visual demonstration: the man’s body appears distorted or partly missing underwater, making the senses look unreliable.

• @afrosidemoon / 50450 2022-08-11