Re: Do people you know exist if they're not around you?
Originally posted by Darth Zannah😂 They exist within their own selves, they don't need you to exist...
This is something I've always thought. Do my friends and stuff exist when I'm not in contact with them? How can they exist if I'm not with them? CHI-CHI-CHI CHA-CHA-CHA.....
Originally posted by Atlantis001
I don´t like solipsism very much, as it is hard to explain why some things are not predictable... you know... if everything is in our mind we should be able to predict everything, but we are not.
Possibly. It's also about the idea that we can't definitely know anything outside of our own mind, which I suppose is a fact, if slightly self-proving.
Originally posted by debbiejo
There's already a thread about the tree..........It was confirmed that in it's vibrational sense that it exists even if picked up in another vibrational field that we cannot feel ourselves... 😑 📖 ....It still exists..It fell, and was picked up by something that felt it somewhere...
Yeah, which isn't sound as we know it. You can argue both ways. Anyway, I shall stop diverting the thread, as this is off-topic.
Debbie- don't reply to this with another 'debbie' post. Good girl.
Re: Do people you know exist if they're not around you?
Originally posted by Darth Zannah
This is something I've always thought. Do my friends and stuff exist when I'm not in contact with them? How can they exist if I'm not with them? CHI-CHI-CHI CHA-CHA-CHA.....
However, from my personal point of view, i don't see how it can be proven that things exist unperceived so why does it make sense to believe that, obviously animate objects/beings can perceive themselves and therefore prove their existence but it's impossible to know whether the cup on the table next to me exists when i close my eyes and don't perceive it in any way...no-one can ever know this, we can only assume.
Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Aww.We hear vibrations in the manner we call sound. Arguably sound must be heard.
Aww look you couldn't stand it, you had to reply......LOL
Sound doesn't have to be heard by us though....There are many other organisms that hear it....feel it, but then we could go into a more quantum view of other dimensions and such, but then that would be off topic again.
Originally posted by debbiejo
Aww look you couldn't stand it, you had to reply......LOLSound doesn't have to be heard by us though....
By something that perceives vibrations as 'sound'.
Originally posted by Biscuit
However, from my personal point of view, i don't see how it can be proven that things exist unperceived so why does it make sense to believe that, obviously animate objects/beings can perceive themselves and therefore prove their existence but it's impossible to know whether the cup on the table next to me exists when i close my eyes and don't perceive it in any way...no-one can ever know this, we can only assume.
You could touch the cup. If you don't, it is more logical to assume that it is still there, than to imagine you are creating it by perception. This is a trick that works on babies.