Or even there? Electrodes in our brains or an actual experience?
What does it matter one way or another anyway....I think it is a mediocre dream from that wicked cider just now. Give it to me!
2006-08-10 14:03:21 · 17 answers · asked by kurt r 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Oh my gosh you mean I could be living in the matrix and I don't realize it yet and I just think I exist and in actuality I'm just a funky electrical wave out there in space....sorry (shot of tequila)ok wait (shot of tequila) boy that was some wicked cider yea your right it really doesn't matter, does it? :-)
2006-08-10 14:15:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I exist and have electrodes in my brain also. Can you believe this? Or is this a mediocre dream from that wicked cider.lol
2006-08-10 21:32:56 · answer #2 · answered by SecretUser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahhhh .... Johnathon Dancy's Brain in the VAT, the basis for the Matrix. I prefer Dewey's pragmatism. Perhaps it is all a dream but I would like to manipulate it so that it can be as pleasant as possible.
2006-08-10 14:18:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I think therefore I am"
assumes the outcome in the statement
and is false as a result.
not that I dont like Descartes; He Rocks
I don't have an answer to your question
but after a lot of thought and time spent
The question is a waste of effort
If you are there, Act!
2006-08-10 17:33:23 · answer #4 · answered by sabremouse141 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Cogito ergo sum... latin for "I think, therefore I am".
Descartes pondered this problem and that was the solution. He couldn't prove he existed by his senses because he could be dreaming, his sense could be lying to him.
However, by simply having the thought in the firstplace then he must exist and that's when he came up with, "I think therefore I am." Cogito ergo sum.
2006-08-11 02:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dave T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/descartes/meditations/meditations.html
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/at/adler.htm
Being afraid of absolute certainty is not a good thing. You are distracted from the here and now for no good reason. This could only contribute to failure. This "I" is not a rock, it is sensitive to pain and pleasure. I endure pain to get the pleasure. To perfect judgement in all its dimensions is the graduation for human intellect, efficiency and humanity, accomodating love as the skin and the person within. Idea is the idea for freedom, freedom from and freedom to. As we develop the Idea, we develop this "I" as social consciousness and beauty as we accept what we can not change, and learn what we can.
2006-08-10 14:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i have a crazy cracked up idea that none of us really exist and that we are all just figments of each others imagination in order to prevent us from getting bored. But then again to get bored we would have to exist - gah its confusing
2006-08-10 14:16:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not even sure you exist inside cyberspace.
2006-08-10 14:23:53 · answer #8 · answered by cumplaynaked 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hinduism's got it wrapped up, I think. We're all part of a God's dream, or something... Don't worry, they last for billions of years, he/she's not gonna wake up for a while.
2006-08-10 14:17:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep, we even exist in the imagination of the speck of dust on the pinky of insects in a parallel universe. we're part of a collective unconscious, i believe!
2006-08-10 14:11:15 · answer #10 · answered by amuse4you 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋