Did you ever get the feeling that you are the only person/being that exists and that everything else is just part of some illusion you created?
2006-07-11 02:02:12 · 11 answers · asked by jasamy31 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
what your talking about is solipsism, the belief that nothing exists outside of the directly experiancable mental states that you have.
it is very hopeful that your first instinct is to turn to a comunity of amature answer providers when serching for the answer to this problem, after all if what you say were true what would be the point of what you are doing?
i think everyone gets the feeling you are describing to some extent and at some time, its one of those ideas that belongs in the section "plainly bo****s, but not plainly bo****s for any easily stated reason".
the link below will give you way more info than you probably want about the phenomena
2006-07-11 02:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by richard 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Existence, real or imagined?"....duh?? Don't you think you exist "for real"?
"Did you ever get the feeling that you are the only person/being that exists and that everything else is just part of some illusion you created?"... funny sometimes I feel like I'm in the Trueman Show :p
2006-07-11 09:09:40 · answer #2 · answered by gameplan_xtreme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess either way it doesn't really matter wheather I am a figment of your imangination or your a figment of mine. I can assure you however that if I made this all up I would have a tie-dyed cat. I do believe however that this all could just be an eloborate holigraph like in some quantum physics book, or that maybe we have already died and are just continuing to live through dream, I guess really the possibilities are endless, except for my tie-dyed cat of course.
2006-07-11 10:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by Krissy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If ALL THIS is an illusion, it still matters to me how the dream works out. Is it worthless to treat what appears as if it exists? Even in dreams I do this. The world matters to me no matter what level of simulation it might be.
2006-07-11 12:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not that I am only existing but including 'I' every thing around me what is seen is both real and imaginary. It is the sensory tools provided to us (organ & senses) by which be could try to differentiate it. By mere existing eyes and ears what all is seen and heared could only look real but when we elevate ourself we could go generate the vision beyond these tools' (eye, ear etc) capacity and then what we understand as real would start appearing imaginary.
This is possible and not imaginary.
2006-07-11 09:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by Pavan R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope it's all real, cause if not whats the point?
Somebody said, maybe kafka, I don't remember...
"Once I had a dream where I was a butterfly and now I don't know if I'm butterfly dreaming to be a man, or man dreaming to be butterfly."
I've felt that way, a lot... but probably everyone is real. All this mess couldn't be caused just by ourselves.
2006-07-11 09:08:02 · answer #6 · answered by Indhy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing that I can ever truly know is that I exist.
Descartes, I think therefore I am.
2006-07-11 09:14:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real for Me. Imagined for You.
2006-07-11 09:10:34 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I imagine that I exist, so I can very well imagine that all of you do too.
2006-07-11 20:51:49 · answer #9 · answered by Linda 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but what are you saying is part of a exoteric philosophy
2006-07-11 09:06:59 · answer #10 · answered by Javy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋