RE: Random thought 04-11-2013, 11:52 PM
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(04-11-2013, 11:48 PM)Brock Obama Wrote:(04-11-2013, 11:43 PM)Zoid Reborn Wrote:(04-11-2013, 08:20 PM)Brock Obama Wrote: Today me and my friends were thinking, what if everything and everyone isn't real, it's just made up by our imagination.
Obviously, we know what we think, but we don't know what others think, so how do we know they are actually real and not just created my our minds?
We'll never know what other people are always thinking, but imagine it like this: Think about how aware of yourself you are, how much you think and what you do - both voluntary and involuntary actions such as breathing and moving. You always know what you will do because you are you. Now, I know what I will always do and you know what you will always do. Just because you don't know someone's thoughts doesn't make them non-existent.
Now for the text highlighted in bold; You know they are real when everyone can see them. If you have a friend, but nobody else can or will ever see him/her (because its not possible. eg, an imaginary friend) then they are not real. However, because it's possible for me to see my parents, and other people can see my parents, I can conclude that they are real, and not just my imagination.
BAM.
Yes, but how do you know that you're not just imagining the people that say they see you parents? They don't really see you parents, as your parents don't exist and either do the people who say they see them. They just like everything else in your life, are a figment of your imagation.
You think you're debating with me now, but you're not really, you're debating with yourself really as I'm just a figment of your imagination..
For that to be possible I wouldn't be able to exist, which would mean that it wouldn't be possible for me to even imagine anything happening at all. UNLESS, I am something like a computer program that was created and everything around me is artificial. But, I don't think that would be very useful, since if the program focused on me (which it would have to for everything to be imagined) then I should have some control over this world, but I don't, and for example, if I do something illegal to get thrown in jail then that would render the program useless, so to speak.
Heh... it's a lot of thinking.. xD