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Originally Posted by haider  Finally, Frans, I must point out that your experiment is flawed and biased. If you choose to ignore the existence of everything around you, does that mean they don't exist? The problem is, you cannot escape your own existence, which only asserts that you do exist, and not that other things don't exist. Again, what discredits SR is the idea that you must abandon your senses (hence, closing your eyes) in order to "prove" the validity of SR. |
1. I consider imagination the most powerful force I have.
If I remove everything around me (in my imagination), it really means that nothing exists (in my imagination).
2. Like many other people on these forums have said: I have only one certainty: "I exist".
Nobody can prove to me that I don't exist and nobody can prove to me that they exist.
I don't say that you do not exist, I say only: nobody can prove to me that you exist on the same level (consciousness/awareness) like me.
3. There are other methods to prove the validity of subjective reality:
a) I can only perceive reality through my body's senses.
As my senses cannot register everything, and as not everything what I perceive is "real", I can safely assume that I cannot see reality "as it is".
With the filtered input from my senses, I construct a mental image of reality.
What I call "reality" is only a mental image, a perception of reality.
This personal perception of reality is per definition a "subjective reality".
b) Everything in my life happens around me.
I'm in the center of everything that happens.
I have a unique point of view.
It's MY life, it's MY reality.
c) At first sight, I'm locked up in a bag of skin (my body).
To survive, my body must be on a planet where there is enough oxygen, water and food. That planet must have a mild climate, so it must be in orbit around a certain kind of warm star. A star can only be found in a galaxy, etc...
This environment is just as essential to the existence of my body as my internal organs (heart, lungs, brain...). So, if I want to describe myself, I must also describe my environment: my body > Earth > galaxy > universe. If one element is left away, I cannot exist. Therefore, the only correct way to describe myself is: my body is an aspect of mine, the Earth is an aspect of mine, this galaxy is an aspect of mine, the universe is an aspect of mine. In other words: I am the universe, this reality is mine.
etc...
Once I had a lucid dream (I realized in my dream that I was dreaming).
I told to the people in my dream that I was only dreaming, but they tried to convince me that they were as real as me and that I wasn't dreaming at all.
Then I woke up...
Since that moment I'm very suspicious when people try to convince me that this reality is real and that they are as real as I.
