How do you prove your existence? DesCartes once said "I think, therefore I am" but I don't think that really means anything. In my dreams, I am lucid I can control what people think and their actions along with my own. Therefore how can we rule out that possibilty that life is one large dream and the things that we think we know are a part of someones imagination. How do you prove that you are solid and not just brainwaves? Please discuss.
I don't think anyone's ever going to prove anything along a scientific plane like that. It's impossible. I remember my Philosophy class talking about that, and we ended up spending near two hours talking about whether we were actually physical beings existing on our own or just manifestations of some other being's imagination constantly living through one continuity. Then at the same time, how do you prove that that being isn't just a manifestation of some other being's imagination and not its own physical being. It goes on and on. It's perplexing.
Personally to me..worrying about that stuff makes things more complicated and just annoying to think about so i just enjoy whatever i am because i can feel emotions so thats all the reality i need
Uhm, this thread is...weird. This question could go into your other thread, the stupid question and stupid answer thread.
I don't like to think about this too much in case I have 'an episode', haha. Just like I don't like thinking about the multiverse because it makes my head spin.
But this isn't a stupid question, this is an IMPOSSIBLE question. So the stupid question that should go in my other thread is "Why would you ask a question that's impossible to answer?"
I thought that quote also meant that because you can think you are an intelligent being. I don't know, my brain is mushed with all AI theories for my Expert Systems unit. But I do wonder about life, how do we know we aren't dolls in one big dollhouse because no-one actually knows why we are here and if there is more life to make a comparison to in the universe. But I probally haven't made sense so I shall zip it for a bit
But honestly and in all seriousness, to me this question is something you can't ask. I am just 100% sure that I exist. I can't even think about me and us non existing, it's something that's impossible, something ridiculous.
We're all really brains in jars on a giant shelf that is the universe, and we've imagining all this. Or we're all part of the Matrix