2007-07-27 10:57:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Who are you to think it does or doesn't?
2007-07-27 13:52:08 · answer #1 · answered by Yep 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that Mr. Jello "nailed" this one perfectly.
The fact that everyone acts "as if" experiential data corresponds point by point to an external reality may only be a belief, but the belief is so ingrained as to not make a bit of difference in our reactions to that data.
Since the fall of '05, I have seen the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" four times and have read the book at least that many. I do firmly believe in an underlying basis in reality to our perceptions, and believe implicitly that reality can be manipulated by an act of will.
I have done so.
(I still lack the will, however, to give up Pop-Tarts and Dr. Pepper for breakfast.)
I also believe, however, that another person, one who believes the perceptible world is "real", can have a just-as-real effect on my physical well-being, no matter how much I believe I can control my reality. Thus, I stay on the sidewalk, away from cars, and far enough off the railroad tracks as well.
2007-07-27 20:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by Grey Raven 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As of now it does but soon the world will end. Whether the life on it, the planet itself, or the universe that the world calls home, they will all come to an end. Scientist presume (according to theory) that in MANY MANY MANY billions of years the universe will end- so when that time comes does it matter if we exist or not because it will end?
2007-07-28 01:51:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False.
Substance exists, we are substance as is everything else in the "world". Spirit, soul, mind, etc are also substance existing in a form that we have yet to fully comprehend. It all exists, but all things and/or beings perceive reality in their own subjective manner, and perhaps our version doesn't really exist.
2007-07-27 19:22:48 · answer #4 · answered by Comancheria 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Armchair philosophers all over the world, from ages long past, and for ages far into the future have speculated, and will continue to speculate, that reality is an illusion.
But have you ever noticed that they do not do so while standing upon a railroad track?
2007-07-27 18:29:41 · answer #5 · answered by Nailing Jello 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, we're experiencing SOMETHING, and Occam's razor says that with no evidence to the contrary, the simplest & best explanation is that the world is real. The only other explanation for what we're experiencing and where we really are would be some sort of Matrix (*ahem*), but that is pure solipsism, a useless philosophical viewpoint with loads of problems of its own.
2007-07-27 18:16:35 · answer #6 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
These kinds of questions crack me up because they are such a waste of brain space. Whatever we call it, whatever it "is", it is something and it does not matter what, only that it is. What is, IS. It's what we have. Live it. Don't analyze it to death....by the time you find an answer you like it will be over and gone and wasted for nothing!
2007-07-28 02:36:18 · answer #7 · answered by naniannie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World will always exists, Life is immaterial
2007-07-27 22:41:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Experiential evidence obtained through my five senses demonstrates to me that it does exist.
2007-07-27 18:38:29 · answer #9 · answered by dru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe and act as if it is all real, does it matter?
2007-07-27 18:39:44 · answer #10 · answered by Bruce H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋