Poll: Do you think that you exist?
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For some reason I am inclined to believe that I exist objectively. I realize it's possible that I could just be a dream or thought, but the limitations of my feeble mind won't let me fully believe it.
"Each reality is but the dream of another, and each sleeper a god unknowing." This pretty much sums it up.
Nil Desperandum
It's not that you're nothingness, it's just that you don't exist in the conventional sense. Simply believing that you are a thinking, emotional, physically embodied creature does not strictly make it so. Saying that "I'm here, because I'm saying that I'm here" is not really useful. It's a sort of bare assertion fallacy.Evilbunny said:
However, saying that since we appear to be thinking and so on lends credence to the idea that we simply do (because not everything has to be so complicated) and thus we have an existence, I can get behind that.
I would have to think that those around me would also have to be written by the same person... and the difference between depth and quality of characters suggests that we would be the product of a writing staff more than one person...
and the way we act reflects upon them and their own actions... so I wouldnt call them very good role models either
and the way we act reflects upon them and their own actions... so I wouldnt call them very good role models either
The internet is interesting because we are having a largely noumenal interaction. We can only assume the other participants in the thread exist because their comments are there, denoted by unique names and avatars, and we assume these must lie beyond our own subconscious. Still, I've made love and I've been punched in the face, I've been filled with rage and overwhelmed by beauty. I'm rather certain I exist, whatever that may entail.
I feel like I'm in that movie, you know. The one with Jim Carey in where his life is just one big television show.
Everyone are actors, situations are planned and such.
I'm onto you ¬_¬
Everyone are actors, situations are planned and such.
I'm onto you ¬_¬
Pretty much this. I'd like to add that if someone just imagines or simulates all this mess, his imagination or simulator is a complete shite with a side order of fries.Ren3004 said:
And i have my own thoughts, my own imagination. Thus "someone imagines us" variant is out of the window - we seem to be too complex to be figments of someone's daydreaming.
I exist, because I rage at pseudo-philosophical bullshit questions like this one. Used far too frequently by people who are desperate to have a large, popular thread.
Therein lies one of the main problems, nobody gives a shit that it's been done many times before, leading to a constant supply of these damned threads. Granted, it's better than silly versus threads, but not by much.
Uh...dude, please don't post a heavy philisophical/reality check or whatever question on this forum. My brain hurts enough already after failing my intermediate algerbra final.
