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Originally Posted by Adam  The only thing that we can trust is that, right now, we have consciousness. We can't trust that we had it before, and we can't trust that we will have it. We can't trust our observations or our memories either. The only thing that we have that we know absolutely is here and now. |
I guess you're right. The main personal problem I have with this and the concept of subjective reality, is the feeling of alienation and aloneness it creates.
All we can really be sure of is the here and now, everything else is questionable.
Here's a particular quote I like from the film K-PAX.
"I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have."