2006-06-08 19:56:32 · 55 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Don't fall into solipsism.
Reality and life are not illusions.
2006-06-15 22:50:53 · answer #1 · answered by David Y 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So what if this is an illusion? I mean, will it change everything that you've lived in your life up to that point of finding out? Some people say that the past is not worth worrying about , but the fact is that the past is what we are. In the end like they say "make the best of it," in other words if you were doing fine up until finding out its all an illusion just make the illusion a reality in your mind, as long as you believe it, what does it matter what it really is?
2006-06-08 20:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by Lexus-Nut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's no conceivable way to get "outside" any such perspectival "reality". If it WAS revealed to you that we are brains in vats, being fed false neural simulations... how would we know that? Oh right, through more neural processes...
Once you start asking "Is this illusion" it just ends up deferring reality on the most 'coherent' picture... and we face it on a daily level between sleep and waking life. But there's no way to confirm it ever.
The extremely satisfyingly coherent views STILL are steeped in mythos, story, reification, backdrops of unquestionable beliefs.
To me dream and waking life are the same, a word on a page, not greatly different from the "referent" that IS itself just another sign. That kind of schizophrenia is what's available. Heh, and it's of course a mental "disease" to think that "appearances" are ontologically the same as "reality". To espouse that defies the order of things... This constructed world is such a house of cards.
2006-06-08 21:55:49 · answer #3 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's NOT an Illusion because basically you think, you act, you feel you touch things and so on..
What this is, is Reality!!! It's a Test for all of us..
This World is not an immortal one.
The coming life is. Where we get punished and rewarded.
2006-06-09 11:27:28 · answer #4 · answered by Pinky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This might be all an illusion. It's an illusion where pain can be inflicted.
2006-06-08 20:01:34 · answer #5 · answered by [[piratexalice]] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well..I am glad you asked..because I know for a fact that this IS an illusion.
2006-06-08 19:59:38 · answer #6 · answered by Toolooroo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then so what? If everything around us is an illusion, we wont ever know, and even if we do we would go mad finding out we lived our entire lives believing somthing was real then we get out of it and things are diffrent? That would drive everyone mad!
2006-06-08 19:59:38 · answer #7 · answered by Jensen Ackles Girl (I Wish!) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were in a dimensional matrix: a world of illusion.
2006-06-20 17:38:20 · answer #8 · answered by ianthra2010 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about?
This IS all an illusion.
2006-06-17 20:24:30 · answer #9 · answered by Aritmentor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a really good illusion then.
Because I feel pain when I pinch myself...
2006-06-08 20:08:52 · answer #10 · answered by ♥LostHeart♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋