You exist in a world that has a set of rules and consequences.
That is still unproven. Descartes tried with "cogito ergo sum".
Of course, the idea that the world is ultimately chaos without universal rules and consequences contradicts what we experience. And certainly what religious faith wants us to think. But what if the only way that our brain and senses are able to experience the world is to organise according to rules and structure that really don't exist outside ourselves, so we only see a fraction of reality that comes out as order because that's what our perceptive filter does. But I think we're beginning to tumble down into the dark cellar of philosophy now. And metaphysics. It's outside my comfort zone as well.
What I meant was that clearly we "exist" in some sense. Whether this existence and the context of it is external or internal to our minds is not the point. And by rules and consequences, I meant that there are natural laws, and there are also social considerations. So even if everything that you think is real is internal to yourself, you still have to cope with the aspects of it that you can't control, and the consequences of performing any given action, whether those consequences be a product physics or social forces. Ergo, whether solipsism is true is - from a practical standpoint - an irrelevant question.
But as you said, this is moving outside of both of our comfort zones and I'm pretty sure that half of the stuff I'm saying now is probably inaccurate to some degree
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Edited by HarbingerDawn - Monday, 15.04.2013, 12:18
This guy must really be an idiot okay, how about just really, really ignorant regarding the concept of time travel and information. (EDIT: I mean the iranian "scientist." Not the guy in the posted video.) That sounds harsh but consider this: If you invent a TIME MACHINE then you're rich- instantly. Just predict the stock market or something. You wouldn't need to sell it or worry about knockoffs!
The Shape Of Space:
This is brilliant: I was always confused about what they meant by "what shape is the universe- flat, or round, etc." and this video describes it perfectly.
Edited by werdnaforever - Tuesday, 16.04.2013, 03:24
As far as I know it's 3. But the injuries are the bigger problem. Over a dozen dozen people were injured, and at least 10 were missing limbs, which is the worst thing I think.
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