How do u know if the world u live in is real and ppl arent acting with u like in Trueman Show? Or if the world is simulated on a computer like shown in The Matrix? When u walk away or leave a certain area it dissapears and all events there get simulated? Or if ur actually nothing but a lab rat...
2007-01-20 05:44:17 · 24 answers · asked by Roy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I completely know how you feel. The weird things that happen here must have, for some reason a cause. No one will ever know unless something like in the Matrix were to happen. I sit on my bed every day and try to figure out if life is just a illusion. But there are to ways we can be lab rats. We can either be programs, or we can be realistic beings us the surveillance of Aliens according to some theorys. Then I ask myself, what if the idea of God was just created to see human reactions to religion but where ever those people that are watching us are, they might be thinking the same thing. For all we know life may just be a illusion.
2007-01-20 05:51:08 · answer #1 · answered by Ugly Duckling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quick answer: I don't...
Longer answer: it's all about perception:
There must be some things we're missing as we perceive through five senses. Perhaps there are more intelligent life-forms who look at us like we look at amoebas which have no sensory perception whatsoever. So how are we to know what is real if we cannot perceive everything?
The only thing that stops me thinking that way when I get in one of those "is this real...?" moods is other people. There are friends who I know exist and aren't acting, and are far too unpredictable to be a part of my own imagination. I know that this doesn't prevent the Matrix theory but I'm relatively convinced that my own actions are real and not simulated. I've had some good hallucinations before and there's always a part of your mind that knows that it isn't real.
To play devil's advocate: That means this must all be fake, otherwise you wouldn't ask the question in the first place... The reason you asked is because a part of your mind knows that life (as we perceive it to be) isn't real...
2007-01-20 13:55:56 · answer #2 · answered by splat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These "modern-day" scenarios are updated versions of an old philosophical question dating back to Plato--and has been talked about by many philosophers since, including DesCartes, Hume, andKant.
Essentially the question is, "how do we know the world we seem to perceive is the "real" world. It's an interesting philosophical question--and, as DesCartes used it, useful as a way of thinking to the extent it lets us challenge our own preconceptions. But, as DesCartes went on to say--its a mental game--there can't be a "proof" that resolves the question. Its what philosophers call a tautology--meaning just that--no absolute proofe one way or the other is logically possible. But he--and most philosophers--pointed out that, unless and until evidence came to lighte that our reality is not real, the question is, and should be seen as, no more than a mental exercise.
Or as John Locke wrote: "It: [reality] is certain enough for all our purposes!" Or, as engineers like tosay: "A differencewhich makes no difference iIS no difference."
2007-01-20 14:02:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, I've had a crazy theory for a few years now. That the solar system is an atom with the sun as the nucleus, and the planets as electrons. A galaxy is a cell and the universe is a great being (God?). Good question!
2007-01-20 14:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by Up an Evolutionary Tree 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i must say that u & i r in same wavelength as at times i also used to think it all in the same way as u did.the only way to find it is to just search if there exist some other world other than the type in which we live then,i am sure that we can find it .i am trying u also do ur part.
2007-01-20 13:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by SHOBHIT J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn the computer off, walk away, and go visit the REAL world for a bit!
2007-01-20 13:48:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd like to not believe this sort of theory, because i actually like people and do not like fictional stuff...unless it's good, but movies like this often make you think this **** could happen or be real
2007-01-20 14:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by Jamie L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude are you ok chill
go with the flow
ur not a lab rat
ur a human being
chill take a breath
2007-01-20 13:47:44 · answer #8 · answered by joy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because if I was the star of a tv show...then I wouldn't have many viewers. I'm very routine...kind of boring :-)
2007-01-20 13:48:12 · answer #9 · answered by angie20k 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Uhm... I guess you just kind of have to believe. Those movies and shows are just fiction and they're not going to happen in my lifetime. Places don't just disappear. That's just weird.
2007-01-20 13:47:01 · answer #10 · answered by Riot 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋