you live in is entirely a very private affair?
*(you learned it during your socialization in the early years)
I ask this Q bec I saw this answer picked as a Best Answer:
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I have a notion that every person lives in his or her "own little world".
Every individual interacts with & perceives the world differently; and therefore, every individual would define "the world" differently. We carry this microcosm with us--imagine that each individual is surrounded by a large "bubble" that contains his miniature reality. When people are close to us, their bubble overlaps ours. Their sense of "the real" is most similar to ours.
By my way of thinking, therefore, it is not possible for anyone to "truly", or *universally* exist. If I don't know Tom, Tom does not, in my world, exist. True, he exists in *his* world, but that is irrelevant to me.
So, no, it is not necessary to be perceived. The invisible person would still exist,but only in his own cognizance.
2007-10-07
04:07:06
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The BA was posted to this Q: Is it necessary to be perceived in order to truly exist?
It is solipsistic and relativistic and ignores so many facts about language and thought, that I won't even bother to point them out,(and the Q&A format prohits it),but I'd like to know what cognitive psychologists and learned persons think of the relation betwee the self a,the world around the self and the nature of language and thought.
2007-10-07
04:12:21 ·
update #1