This is really weird!?

Question

If suppose each living thing on this planet is a recieving 'device', meaning all that we see around us are nothing but signals transmitted to the 'brain' by all our senses-eyes,ear,mouth,skin,nos... So the whole world is just an image formed in our brain made by these signals. So even our brain, body everything is just an image formed in that recieving 'point'. We cannot even be sure if all of our 'past' was just fed into us at one single moment, or if it really did exist.How can we know for sure that the world really exist or if we are 'something' stationary and just that the signals are continuosly being fed into us?The dream state gives more proof for this, coz even in a dream we can feel, touch, hear, smell and see our body someplace else(a different world),which actually doesn't exist in reality!And what happens when we r in deep sleep- no senses,no world, no people-nothing!

I found this to be a bizarre concept, but couldn't find anything to prove it wrong either. What do u think

Answer 1

i think you watched the matrix way to much.

Answer 2

This is a philosophy question and definately not a science question.

You said you could not find anything to prove it wrong. What did you find to prove it right? It is impossible to prove a negative. You cannot prove that leprachauns do not exist. However, is that reason to believe in leprachauns?

I would not spend any time believing in this idea unless you have some sort of evidence for it. As mentioned before, there have been various pieces of scifi that touch on topics like this. If what you are going for is a scifi story of some sort, then flesh it out and add something orignal to it, like a person discovers that world is just a digital dream and what he wants to do is reprogram the dream to bring back his lover who died years ago, but the system keeps rewriting the program. He gets his lover for a short time but the computer takes her away from him time after time. Finally, the computer starts treating him like a computer virus. (If any writers out there can make that story sound good then take it.)

Now, if your goal here is to come up with a "Duuuude, think about this" scenario, then this will do for those who have not seen "The Matrix".

Answer 3

It is a little strange, but not totally bizarre. Try reading "Process and Reality" by Alfred North Whitehead. Not exactly the same ideas, but some interesting concepts.

Answer 4

You need to rent "The Matrix"