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Originally Posted by Sean.M.Connelly  But there was an underlying problem: how could there be so many delusional people? How could that be? How was it that everyone around me was stupid, and I was the only smart one? Now sure... you can say "coincidence", or "you're a nut", or "you're lying"... but after a while, those words start to lose meaning. You can only say that so many times before you start to think to yourself, "Hmmm ... maybe there is something else going on here? Because I sure am resorting to those three explanations quite a lot. These situations just seem more complicated than that." |
Watch these videos by Derren Brown and you may find that skepticism coming back.
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The mind is a very powerfull organ that we do not fully understand yet. The subconcious mind is especially strong. It has the ability to affect the way we view reality much more so than even our conscious mind. It can prevent the conscious mind from accessing certain memories, it can change the way we remember those memories, it can make us feel things with no physical stimuli, it can prevent us from seeing things and it can also help us to notice small details.
In truth a person cannot trust their own experiences any more than they can trust a strangers advice. Even though we like to think our conscious mind (the "I") is in control, the subconscious mind is the one that really runs the show. Experiences are based on what we can perceive but you can never be 100% sure that you are perceiving all that you need to come to an accurate conclusion of what happened.
My belief is that we do live in a objective mechanical universe. However, that being the case, each of us still lives in our own subject universe in our own minds. We have different ideas on what is important in life, our own purposes, and the many other aspects that make us human are all variables that create our own subjective reality.