Are we all just figments of each others imaginations?

Answer 1

No, you are all a figment of my imagination. Welcome to my world!

Answer 2

What we see and hear and know is all inner representation, so in that sense we are in each other's imagination. But are we just 'figments'? This generally is taken to mean there is no substance on which the imagining is done. Clearly there is sufficient consistency in the world for communication - and whilst this might all be just imagination, it is profoundly lawful and consistent.

One view of this is that the nature of existence is most fundamentally the nature of the conscious mind, and from that come energy and matter. So in that sense we are all 'just figments', but not of independent, separately owned (so to speak) imaginations. Rather we (and all things) are ultimately constructed of whatever sentience is.

So the answer goes something like: psychologically yes, practically no, existentially yes (for most people).

Answer 3

If we had a pinch-a-thon, I think we would all feel it and know that we are not just figments. You've made me think and it hurts.

"A thought-experiment related to solipsism, although in principle distinct (for one thing, it posits a real mad scientist, brain, and vat, which a metaphysical solipsist would dispute), is the brain in a vat. The person performing the thought-experiment considers the possibility that they are trapped within some utterly unknowable reality, much like that illustrated in the movie The Matrix. A mad scientist could be sending the same impulses to one's brain in a vat that one's brain (understood to be that of a person in the "real world") might receive, thereby creating "the world" as one knows it from the mad scientist's program. Yet, for one's brain in the vat, that "world" would obviously not be "real." This raises the possibility that everything one thinks or knows is illusion. Or, at the least, that one cannot know with any certainty whether one's brain is in the "real world" or in a vat receiving impulses that would create an equivalent consciousness— or even if there is a real world, mad scientist, brain, or vat (all experience could be simply a never-ending dream)."

Answer 4

Not really. We are each of figment of our own imagination. Get the difference?

Answer 5

I'm a figment of my own imagination

Answer 6

This question is a figment of my imagination.

Answer 7

No, because if I were a figment of yours, I wouldn't have the capacity for you to be a figment of mine.

Answer 8

definitely!!! lol!! i have spent hours debating this subject with my friend, and we decided that the only explanation for some of the events in our english classroom is that we are a figment of my imagination.. and its common knkowledge im insane. hehehe

Answer 9

everyone you meet is a figment or your imagination as you decide how you perceive them and they in turn do the same to you. your own self image is also your own creation.

Answer 10

I can't be a figment...because no-one in my local council has any imagination whatsoever.. but they still send me council tax bills!

Answer 11

i think therefore i am.

if everyone was figments of each other' imaginations, who began doing the imaginating! it is completely ilogical to say this, there must be at least one of us who is real, to imagine the rest.


as it is we are all real, created by God, in the image of God.