why or why not? if not then what are we perceving and observing?
2007-01-07 09:03:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Of course. I mean, for all you know I could be an alien from another planet responding to your question from my mother ship.
2007-01-07 09:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by iNeviTable fuTure 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things is deeply connected and related to "your" existence and not necessarily to existence of "your" perceptions. Perceptions is something which "you" may or may not develop...Who are "you" in relation to "your" perceptions? The One who developing or luck of developed...By developing your perceptions, observing that which is observed, you can see and feel more today than you felt and saw yesterday....and so on...
2007-01-07 18:00:28 · answer #2 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, we can only know only so much from what we precieve. There is a truer identity that we can never truly understand or predict for that manner. Our preceptions are simply educated guesses that we use to become more comfortable with our surrounding world, instead of being lost and unknowing.
2007-01-07 17:12:34 · answer #3 · answered by Somebody Real 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perception is profoundly personal. You may look at dirt and see dirt. Someone else may look at it and see the possibility for growing things. Yet again, someone else may look at it and see the beginnings of our planet. Everything exists, has it's purpose, and how we perceive it is our own gig.
2007-01-07 17:53:58 · answer #4 · answered by PariahMaterial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is real.
All we are is atoms.
A strict materialism refutes itself for the reason given long ago by Professor Haldane: ‘If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true...and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.’
2007-01-07 18:03:41 · answer #5 · answered by harlequingirl1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. If it didn't exist before we knew it, then how are we able to perceive it in the first place? Thus, it had to have already been before it was known.
2007-01-07 19:35:09 · answer #6 · answered by Source 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The material universe exists with or without us. It is only their consequences that we each perceive individually. And that is what constitutes our own reality.
2007-01-07 17:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. Just b/c we have bigger brains doesn't mean we have some cosmic connection. And if they didn't, humans would never have gotten here.
2007-01-07 17:05:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-01-07 18:34:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at a tree structure. Your answer is there.
2007-01-07 19:10:11 · answer #10 · answered by archaeoprophet 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋