Suppose your phone number was 11131719. Suppose you had had this number for a very long time, so you have a certain emotional relationship to it (yes, of course, no way the same as to your girlfriend). How would you memorize that number ? I'd simply throw in: primes between 10 and 20.
Suppose...
I know what you mean but I'm far from being convinced of the usefulness of solipsism and logic in such a case (or maybe I take a little too serious what you say).
People usually have good reason to trust their senses more than anything else. Even the hallucinating psychotic projects the...
I'm curious about how you think some claim could be logically undermined by showing that it leads to solipsism...
Is solipsism equivalent to logical false or does the philosopher rather utilize a mixture of scare and authority here ?
5, so no QM yet.
No.
There is no such thing as sanity. This world is full of crazed maniacs. Some of the maniacs make believe that they are normal because they belong to a certain group, and some others get remorses because they don't. Just be indulgent to yourself and others and...
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It is, but I don't have to explain to myself that my son exists, only because he is consistent with what I know about physics. Nobody should use a hammer to arrange flowers.
I disagree. It's just the experience that we can understand certain things by thinking, which raises the addictive expectation that this always works.
Imagine you were a little child again and you got your first peach. And you found out that there is such an attractively shaped pit inside of...
Well, if you know Einstein, then you know that everything is relative... Take reality for example:
When I first saw your user name, I thought it meant "confused a shell" and only now I have realized that it means "confused as hell". When you referred to "OCD", I thought you mistakenly meant...
As Feynman once said, whether the description of our world can be put into a finite set of equations is a totally open question. So killing yourself because our contemporary understanding of physics is not as complete as you expected, is a bit of overreacting, isn't it.
I wonder if the stone...
With a good psychiatrist. No, seriously, the impression that I cannot change the world to my liking is the strongest evidence I guess. So there is no way to go wrong: the fail safe mode of operation of my brain is to think of an objective world, although I don't know exactly how it's working...
As has been said before, this is not a question of true and untrue. This is just an interpretation that tries to make sense out of the probabilistic ingredients of quantum mechanics. But you don't need it to make physical predictions.
Then your friend should get his facts straight. None of...
I guess some people will share your concern about that. But this is a free world and every idea will find its natural habitat. Some ideas survive, others don't.
What does meaningless mean ? I'd rather believe that an interpretation of reality is meaningless than reality itself is meaningless.
But when you will have managed your crisis, at least you will be aware of the fact that some ideas are useful while others aren't that useful...