Is the world real or is it just a figment of our imagination?

Answer 1

It's all in your head, none of it is real. Now please give me all your "imaginary" money and possessions, and stare at the sky.

Answer 2

It's not proven either way, but it is easier to say that it is real, Descartes would disagree, but then again he was put in his place by Princess Elizabeth. The problem with a purely imaginative world is the link between a nonphysical free entity (the mind), and the physically experienced causally closed system.

I hope you wanted a real philosophical answer, and not an armchair philosophy.

Answer 3

You say "our". But if your world is a figment of your imagination, so are the supposed "other people" in it. Perhaps you, your perception, is all there is. Why don't you suppose so for a while, as a thought-experiment. Which implications does this idea have?

Answer 4

Are you a rationalist or an empiricist? If you're a rationalist, you believe that your house, car, furniture, etc. exist even when you're not looking at them, but if you're an empiricist, you believe they stop existing when you aren't looking at them and somehow spring back into existence when you decide to look at them again. Me, I'm a rationalist. I think that things exist even if I don't happen to be looking at them at the time. You're not one of those people who think the world started when they were born and will cease existing when they die, are you?

Answer 5

I treat the imaginary with the same care as the so-called real.
No problems.

Answer 6

The world is as real as we allow ourselves to believe it to be.

Answer 7

is your imagination real?

Answer 8

it is your imagination.