Philosophers, make your comments here

[Tenacity]

@Maelstrom: Your comments express only one opinion - and trust that the world is in itself 'real' and that it is not simply a construct of the mind.

As an example, when you dream your mind is both creating and experiencing its own false reality simultaneously at such a perfect rate that you do not realize you're in a dream until you wake up.

What if the world we think is 'real' - what if this reality we're all so convinced that we live in - is the same thing? A figment of our imaginations, a reality constructed by our own minds? And what if the only reason we all seem to percieve the same reality is because, as Schrodinger once said, "the total number of minds in the universe is one." In essence we are all fragments of the same mind, creating a reality for itself (and by extension, for ourselves).

Just as we cannot prove or disprove free will vs determinism, we cannot prove whether or not this reality is, in fact, real. That doesnt mean it isnt a possibility, it just means we have no means of discerning the truth, if such a thing exists at all.

And, if that is 'true' - if we really are constructing our own reality - then mental actions can have just as much, if not more, effect on this world than supposed physical actions.



@Coin: Both scientists and philosophers have used the causal chain of events to try and explain existence - eventually they go back and back until they reach the 'beginning' of the universe (if there ever was a beginning), and it ends. There is nothing we can percieve that explains the universe itself, so they end up falling back on "well, it must have been god!"

My point of view on that is... why? Why does there have to be a beginning, why does there have to be a cause or an explanation? What if the nature of reality isnt nothing, but rather the natural state of things is 'something'. Why did something have to come from nothing? It makes far more sense that something was always something to begin with and that there never was nothing.

Thats why I didnt study philosphy.

I already have all the answers.

If you had studied philosophy, you would know that you have no answers at all =P

Also, this isnt my major or anything, it's just an elective class to fill the credit requirements I need for my degree.

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