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[Tenacity]

Hello Guys,
First, this arguement does nothing to disprove reality or any impact we may have on it. You may well be correct in your surmises, but it does not change the fact that we, the individual bits of mind given life, cannot change reality with mere thought. If we are a hobo's drunken fever dream, then we shall remain a fever dream despite any thoughts we may pursue. All that is left us is the ability to experience whatever our reality is, and the reality is that my Killians is getting warm and I want to experience it cold.

(Mmm, oreo's)

Another assumption on what is or isnt.

Perhaps we can change the world with a thought, you simply do not know how to do so... yet. Afterall, they say that we use less than ten percent of our brain's functional capability.

Your senses collect roughly 200,000 bits of information per second, your brain only processes about 2,000 bits per second. This is what causes you to miss subtle changes in the world, and it has been tested extensively in the past. Take two pictures that are nearly identical, save for one small difference - perhaps both pictures feature the same building, but one picture has an extra window added in. If you flicker between the two, back and forth, your mind will not see any change - it will assume they are the same image until the difference is pointed out to you.

David Hume, a quite famous philosopher, commented heavily on this - saying that in order to truly understand the world we must do nothing but observe fully. If you expect something to happen, that's what will happen. Everyone sees black crows because they expect crows to be black, it isnt until the one person with an open mind sees a white crow that they are accepted as 'real'.

Simply because you do not know how to do something does not make it impossible. You say that we cannot change the world we perceive with our thoughts - I can analogize that with not knowing how to program in fortran or C++ - I dont know how to do it, but that doesnt mean it isnt real or possible. Someone in the world does, and it is just as founded to say that someone in the universe knows how to manipulate this supposed 'physical world' without physical interaction.

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