philsophical question #2?

Question

do you think physicality and solidity are real, or just an illusion

Answer 1

They're as much as an illusion as your walking on this planet, saying you're alive.

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Answer 2

probably needed to define terms like exactly what is real. I am assuming you mean lasting and not likely to disappear when we are not looking and returns when we are there or exist only in our haeds. My thought is it may be like total recall (The movie) where what we really are, is a lizard sitting somewhere in a comfy chair with a gizmo on his head that plugs into his brain and everything is in the program he purchased and helped design. In that case my real self is one sick Fk.

Even more likely is the scenario that whatever we actually are is strapped in with a full body nerve job which projects us into a program designed totally by the warden. The program is designed to teach us to play nice. There is a rule book (Bible) and outside help available if we ask for it in accordance with the rules, and so the Counselor Jesus will help us get an early out, and we will be rewarded by being able to return to the place we formerly lived called HEAVEN Habitate for the Elite Advanced Variably Exclusive Neophyte which is the currently open existance option, for new comers, who have recently completed training.

If one fails this program then there are other options available. One can decide to end it all and must be burned cuz that is the least painful way to return to the dust (I assume you are aware once the nerves are burnt then pain stops). Or there is the think it over option where you are confined to outer darkness where there are no senses available and all you can do is be alone and think. there are at least 7 options leading down to those that include punishment for the hard headed scociopathes.

That was fun.

actually I think we are not being decieved and things are pretty much as we experience them.

Answer 3

Descartes asked this question. He subscribed to this Cartesian idea of doubt that dictated that everything that can be doubted MUST be doubted.

He eventually arrived at the conclusion that the only thing he could truly be sure of was the fact that he was thinking (the "cogito ergo sum", or "I think, therefore I am" argument) and thus the essence of his being was thought, not physical matter.

I suppose it depends on how you look at it. There are a lot of great philosophers who wrote on this subject.

Answer 4

A believable and congruent illusion is just as good as the physicality. If it elicits the same responses and interacts the same way, does it really matter whether it's real or illusory?

Answer 5

When moving from a POS Toyota Paseo to a spacious leather appointed Avalon I realized that although solidity and physicality may only exist in our minds, it sure as hell feels goooood baby yeah!

Answer 6

That depends. If you're a quantum physicist, it's only real because you think it is. Then there's the whole objective/subjective truth thing, which is actually in my SAT prep book... Coincidental?

Answer 7

A farmer sent his son to college. The son came back with his education in philosophy. The farmer asked his son what he learned in that there college.

The son replied; "I learned that you cant prove anything. I couldn't even prove that my nose is on my face."

The dad hit his son in the nose and asked; "what hurts?"

Answer 8

theyre real.

matter exists regardless of our ability to percieve it. if i put a transparent piece of glass in a fishbowl would the fish bonk its head on it? yes. a few seconds before he had no knowledge (and still doesent) of glass yet he still runs into it.

insects, flys to be specific, hae no knowledge of glass either, yet they continuously buzz at the window trying to find a way out.

Answer 9

Chi ha caduto una bomba su 9/11?

Answer 10

Yes.