Is cartesian skepticism and ideas like the matrix something to be taken seriousely?????

Question

i dont get it. is it saying that there is truly a chance that reality might not exist?

or is it a self defeating idea and just a standpoint to show what can be truly known EMPERICALY

and what about wittgenstein? i always here people tell me to read his ideas and that they are good. but why dont some people like him? he is considered one of the best.

Answer 1

This is at the heart of the Madhyamaka. What is the point of saying that there is this, "only mind". Or to twist Descarte around, to say "Thoughts exist, therefore "I" exists" Since the concept of "I" is, of course, another conceptual construct, an idea. The point is not to disprove feats of sight or sound or knowing, but to understand that these things lack an inherent existence, apart from ourselves. If the perception of phenomena is malleable without limit, e.g. masochists like to be cut and burned, one can use this freedom to liberate themselves from "suffering" in their life. Thus, it is quite serious.

Answer 2

The true test is what happens in answer to the demand "Show me the facts." If the answer requires a leap of faith to make it acceptable then it's probably not correct. If the answer is made available with a track like stepping stones across a stream then it's more likely to be true. Remember Occam's razor - the most simple hypothesis is the most likely one.

Answer 3

i've got faith this to be a easy topic in sci-fi: technologies taking on and removing the "human" adventure. each and each individual has their very own certainty on a definite point, yet as an entire society -- worldwide -- certainty is collective and what we have faith it to be. there is no finite definition of certainty once you communicate approximately each and all of the be conscious's connotations and all of certainty itself's inflections. think of approximately it. The "real" worldwide (aka, "certainty") is thoroughly distinctive for, say, a schizophrenic than that's for a mentally healthful individual. certainty exists for you in my opinion and for the human race together as we define it to be. video clips like the Matrix redefine certainty in the plotline to be that of the technologically superior non-people (equipped by technique of people, the irony of that certainty). certainty if so is what the machines define it to be. i've got faith that the factor to those video clips is that human form is self-detrimental, even no rely if that's no longer at present obvious. "I, robotic" (the action picture) makes the same ordinary factor: people will self-destruct ultimately. With our contemporary technologies, no, we can't take it heavily. although, it must be a probability interior the destiny. it must be that the A.I. machines evolve and "learn" from the plotlines of our video clips the thank you to redefine certainty and "procreate" maximum effectively by technique of our very own suggestions.

Answer 4

i think the message is that reality is arbitrary. what can be truly empirical? it is kind of zen too. are we dreaming the world? or is someone else dreaming it, and we are just part of that dream? when you wake up from the dream, what will you be? a butterfly? no one knows. nothing is empirical if you think the whole thing may not exist anyway.