Absolute proof is impossible. This is obvious. I'm confused as to why you people are all still wrestling with this.
The only purpose of knowledge and intelligence is PREDICTION. Your brain is there to predict its own future input. That's it.
The easiest, simplest, most accurate way to do this is:
1. Posit the existence of an external objective reality
2. Understand the rules that govern that reality (currently the accepted natural laws of physics)
3. Apply these laws to any situation to determine what will happen.
This is not the ONLY method of predicting your future observations. But it is the easiest and simplest and most accurate. Why confuse yourself with supernatural ideas that lead to all sorts of niggling contradictions?
OBSERVATIONS of astral projection, lucid dreaming, out of body experience, psychic phenomena, etc, are all easily predicted by this simple three-point method once you factor in the imperfect nature of the human brain and the way our mind generates processes perceptions.
i.e. just because you think you see a ghost doesn't mean you have to believe it was actually there. Believing that brings up a whole bunch of other questions and will draw you into a long and impossible to win battle against logical contradiction. You can hide those contradictions but they will never go away. Instead, it is a lot easier to explain these phenomena naturally.
Proof has nothing to do with it because proof doesn't exist. Nor does the concept of 'real' objective reality. SR is technically what we live in. But OR is the most useful thinking tool we have. |