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Also, what about when people get cancer or are invovled in serious accidents. Surely they weren't intending that?
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Some people argue that they were infact intending it to happen. I don't know whether I agree with that or not, however.
With subjective reality, I don't think it's possible to prove one way or the other. How can I say absolutely that what I see and who I meet is "real" and valid? It comes down to Descartes, and
cogito ergo sum: "I think, therefor I am." The only true thing you can know is yourself. His argument was even though everything around me appears to be real, how can I be absolutely sure? The only thing to be sure of, he says, is that you yourself (not me--or anyone else) exists at least as a thought.
On subjective reality, Steve says:
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Everything you experience is occurring inside your consciousness, and that includes your head too. So your head is inside your consciousness, not the other way around.
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How can you even begin to prove that anything happens outside of what you see and know? It's logically impossible, because as soon as you try to prove that something outside of your own knowledge exists, it's within your knowledge and thus in your conciousness.