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Originally Posted by jaamkie   mostly I agree with this, have for a long time- which is why I'll express a bit of "devil's advocate"... |
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I think we shouldn't throw out all care for "what we think others think", or to 100% always see our experiences with the belief we are the only consciousness in existence. It is absolutely true that as I sit here all I know, all I experience, is my own consciousness- I can never get beyond it to objectively "prove" anything exists, and as "intelligent design" explains, even if the scientific explanations are seamless and complete, we can always posit an intelligence/power outside who has created the perfect explanations. BUT, I think I'm better off spending most of my time accepting and experiencing the illusion, only occasionally coming up for perspective. To spend all my time cynically nihilistically focusing on the limits of my awareness would prevent me from emotionally connecting, and from learning the lessons I'm setting up for myself, attracting to myself. It is like how we only emotionally connect with a movie when we intentionally forget that the movie is a screen reflecting projected light in a dark room, a movie is a recording of actors reciting lines on a contrived set. I choose to pretend to know that others are as real/conscious as myself, that I can communicate/relate to them and generally empathize- I choose to pretend it all matters, I choose to participate in relationships, I choose to care about others and how they feel because it is a more interesting enjoyable experience than watching detachedly from outside it all.
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That's a very interesting point jaamkie. I like that warning, it helps treat other people as more human. I remember a guy online in my previous life as an online gamer who started to feel that we were just avatar, figment of his imagination, so he didn't care how he treated us. Definetely not pleasant at times.
However, what I wrote in my post is valid even in objective reality.
The truth though, is for me, I want to be able to
know (believe with full certainty) that someones believes the worst thing possible about me, and yet I'd still be completely ok and not bothered by it. To live life caring so much for other people, and yet to be completely unbothered by their perception of me sounds quite lovely. I know some people who are there, and it I find it quite inspiring to aim to be at that level myself.