I have always wondered that, what if people with mental disabilities has overcome their brain capacities, we just look at them at crazy people because we dont understand what they are doing, like their mind in on another realm but the body is still in the simulation, doing muscle memory
Ok. I've thought about perception translation incongruities between two observers since I was really young. Like "how do I know that you see the same green I see, and not some other color you're told is green?"
Whether or not reality actually exists outside of my own mind, it doesn't change anything. I am still experiencing something real, something that means something to me. I still force myself to wake up in the morning. I still engage in hobbies I enjoy, eat foods that taste good, and practice skills and think about myself so that I will hopefully always be a better person tomorrow than the person I am today. Even if I wake up and nothing was true, it was all an illusion, the skills I have and the knowledge I have gained aren't fake. Those will be with me, wherever my consciousness ends up.
Eh you can life your life thinking I'm just a random simulation of your brain or recognize i am a real living breathing thing much like you are. Hope that helps your existentialism.
@@mr.nazareth4501 it’s because that’s how a mind perceives the world ahead of itself. YOU look at things and you don’t share that perception with anybody else so whatever you suppose and think are YOUR thinking. That’s why everything is according to your mentality and thoughts.
You dont completely get it i think. The point is that theres no way for us to proove that were living in a real world. It could just be an imagination or simulation
@@Claremore-Man we can comprehend it, Truth has been revealed through God's word. John 14:6 John 1:1-4 I ❤ the Bible. I love you too! Jesus commands us to even love our enemies. What is love? Part of it is telling the truth.
Well it does exist, a blind man can’t see but he can feel what’s around him, even though he can’t see it, anyone freaking out about “Oh shit am I real” think about that and calm down lol
You realize that his sense of touch, taste, everything else would still be signals in his brain created because of outside stimuli right? So those outside stimuli could be signals sent through an AI to his brain. Not saying the theory is correct. Just saying it does have a real argument.
This had me thinking; if everyone was born completely blind, would things like reflections, colours or even light still exist? In the same sense, what if we, as humans, are missing a vital sense organ that could perceive a whole new reality right in front of us?
There is a higher chance of your brain randomly forming in space, living out your life inside of it's head, and then once it's done thinking of another life
Lmao can we get an F in chat for all the people who’ve never had an existential crisis, therefore not knowing the real danger here and sticking around for curiosity. The poor cats. 😂
My brain would never choose a universe in which I had to work and damn sure not one in which I was broke. Reality is very much outside of my brain lmao.
It is also very interesting as far as theories behind the "gut feeling" because our brains filter out 90% of our senses so as to not overwhelm ourselves. So even something we hear in our brain compartments isn't necessarily acknowledged and made real if It doesn't have an importance right now
The illusion wasn't really the entire point. The point was that since we are unable to tell if what we sense is actually reality, or just a fabrication made by our mind, we can never truly tell whether or not we are in a simulation. A constructed reality.
@@enlightenedlightning121 the problem is that those arguments don't really assist anything philosophically or fundamentally. It's easier to assume this and the human experience is base reality (minus the influence of drugs ofc) because the ramifications of this reality being constructed don't change a thing when you're dead or dying, and you wouldn't notice a thing if they shut us off one day. Look up Pascal's wager when you get the chance.
Yeah, but the cogito argument only aruges that I exist, not that the reality I live in is real. I can exist, but reality is all fake, just all an illusion by a devil, as Descartes proposed
I believe that it's the actual outside world that is reality because when we go to sleep and lose all track of the world. We wake up and it's all exactly the same. However, that brings up the thought of "Last-Thursdayism" and where our memories have just been generated in our mind last Thursday
I had an experience where I couldn't tell the difference between if I was in a fantasy world or in a world that is reality. I now understand that if I want to change my current reality. All I have to do is make those changes. I need to think about what I want to change. And then make the change
I remember as a kid thinking everything only exists for as long as someone's looking at it. Think of it like old school stealth games where the enemy on the minimap would have a cone of vision in front of them, but for everything you see, not just bad guys.
Argument from Experience A simple question to ask a solipsist is: "Have they experienced the color red?" If they respond by saying "Yes" - proceed to ask them "How were they able to experience the color red?" they may respond by saying "that the reason we are able to experience the colour red is because it exists in our mind". Ask them if the colour red exists in their mind a-priori or a-posteriori, they may respond by saying "It exists a-posteriori" - further proceed to ask them if they'd be able to conceive of the color red if they haven't experienced it, they may respond by saying "No" - further proceed to ask them if it is conceivable to experience something that doesn't exist, they may respond by saying "No, as something that doesn't exist cannot be experienced" - proceed to ask them if the color red exists independent of their mind or if it exists in their mind, they'd respond by saying "In their mind", if so, one ought to ask them "How can the colour red that doesn't exist in the real world be experienced when the mind doesn't give rise to experiences it hasn't had or experience something that doesn't exist - so where does this experience of the colour red come from!?" The answer is from an external source of reality in which the colour red exists.
Simulation theory, and the fact that we may or may not be significant is definitely a scary thought. Not only does it lower our self-esteem, but it could also cause severe damage to the brain that i couldn't explain. But whether or not what we're experiencing is real, it doesn't really matter does it? Just living in this moment, knowing, thinking about it already makes it so real, so special. This level of awareness is already what makes the human species so special.
I read an article in the Conversation recently by a scientist who has proposed some experiments we can use to test the simulation hypothesis. We can do some of the experiments with our current level of technology
As one person (you may know him, he's Arthur Sharifov) once said, Reality is the thing that isn't gonna stop existing when you quit believing in that. So I still stick at this when someone turns talking about that
Decartes theory of rationalism is an early version of „simulation theory“ the whole „I think therefore I am“ thing. He stipulated that reality is the tricks an evil spirit is playing tricks on your mind. My Critique of this line of reason also applies to simulation theory: If a simulation/ evil spirit were to really play tricks on your mind the last thing it would want is for you to find out. If anxiety like this exists someone who is not you must have also felt it and formulated an idea about it, so this anxiety about non existence has to be shared between multiple thinking minds. This may not disprove rationalism or „Simulation theory“ in its entirety but with it you can know that your not alone.
If a tree falls in the woods it does make a sound, because animals and bugs will hear it, also a thing hitting the ground and not making noise isn’t scientifically possible
People act like simulation theory is some profound thing, buts just a mildly interesting thought experiment. The theory could NEVER be proven or disproove since its a non falsifiable claim, its just best not to worry about it.
As René Descartes famously said, "I think, therefore I am". This is the foundation of the Human knowledge which proves we're real, but we don't know about the rest of the world. We never thought of it that way.
This is a very interesting topic. I like thinking of it like this: We live in three dimensions which are length, width, and depth, and Heaven is in like a higher dimension. They can see us, but we can see them. Whether we’re in a simulation or not, I doubt it, but I don’t know how God made His creation. All I know is that it’s very good.
There are so many things our senses don’t pick up on, colors we can’t see, frequencies we don’t hear, reality is what’s happening not your perception of it
To me, the truth about reality is something our Human minds will likely never understand. Are we in a simulation? Are there infinite realities? Are we in the singularity of a black hole? It seems we will never know until we die.
I have never understood why people struggle with "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" question. Of course it does.
Outside is reality,inside are possibilities that can be brought to reality-it’s called “Free Will”,and you best use it wiser than you currently exhibit.
This question is what the most important book in Mahayana Buddhism, the Heart Sutra, is all about. I use science to help me understand Buddhism and it really helped.
As to if tree falls in woods theory. Yes the vibrations that would cause you to perceive sound would exist. BUT because there is no one there to feel the vibrations with their eardrums then technically no sound was heard and only a vibration occurred. This actually touches on something very interesting to me. Did you know that you have never really had 5 senses? Technically you only have one sense. You only feel, and your brain decodes those feelings. Your ears feel vibrations and the brain decodes it at sound. Your eyes feel the light and air and so your brain perceives it as sight. Your tongue feels and your brain perceives it as taste. Your nose feels the air and perceives it as smell. All you’ve ever done was feel. It’s just that your eyes, tongue, ears and nose have hyper sensitive feelers that your brain can use to help you decode reality in a certain way.
The flaw with this type of arguments (Descartes Demon - like), is in the fundamental assumption of Mind being separate from reality. If an opposite assumption will be applied here, it leads to the circular argumentation.
It is sort of something you can’t actively prove since your results are being processed with your brain, experience itself and comprehension of those experience are inside your brain.
I have a test for it. If applying antibiotic to a sore is just running a program. Then you could apply antibiotic to the sore ten times and be running 10 programs. This would mean that the sore should heal 10 times 10 times faster
When I was little I used to think that everybody but me was blind, deaf,and mute when I was not around and that nothing existed when I was not there. I was a deep 3 year old.
In Hinduism the material world is not the real world. It's called Maya. They talk about leaving this maya and being one with ultimate consciousness. They say there is only 1 consciousness and we're all part of it but because of how this maya plays we don't remember that and we have become too attached, addicted to Maya. There are sadhus who have detached themselves from this material world and they have become 1 with the ultimate consciousness.
this logic also means that my brain was able to construct an entire universe inside of itself, a fucking huge history, all for me to do nothing inside of it to help explore or learn
Personally for my existential crisis, I prefer the “Last Thursday” thought experiment. As our entire existence being a simulation has nothing on the idea of our entire existence being nonexistent.
It was moving up and down but! It was also spinning with large, blurry, pixelated shadow on one half of the sphere. So when it moves your peripheral vision is picking up the shadow/ light movement 1st. So it was kind of a trick 🤦🏾♀️
We respond to real objects & stimuli thru our senses. Much of our experience is a social construct, but that does not mean that natural phenomena is not real. Schrodinger’s experiment gives another layer of experience that we have yet to be conscious of.😮🎉
The reality in your mind is a perception of your enviroment. Also, a leef falling from a tree would make vibrations in the air as just anything else, but for it to become a sound the mind needs to process it as a sound. If we developped differently sound could have probably been processed as something different maybe-
If a tree falls in the woods, you have to be able to interpret that sounds with the use of ears and brain or some form of receiving transmitter, otherwise the sounds doesn’t matter. It’s only after the use of those tools that we can elaborate on what the “sound” really was.
If it was all in our head stuff like manifesting wouldn't be some random bs, it would be a hard fact and we'd be able to control anything with enough willpower
I was thinking I was crazy there for a second, then had to look up what “diagonally” to make sure I was not confusing objective reality. Nope, all is good.
For me, the dot was moving along a curve… as if you were to put two 45* diagonals perpendicular to eachother and take the two end points closest to the initial dot. Then making a curve through the intersection of the lines.
