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The reason I state.. can I prove you exist is for the following..
I know I exist. The truth of the statement is based only on my own thoughts, my own dreams, and my own perceptions. I do not however know if you are real, or if anything around me is real. Perhaps, as it has been aptly put.. I am a brain in a jar. A system feeds me impulses that reflect an envorinment that is either an experiment, or a very subtle joke.
I'm not going to get into the Matrix.. it was an adaptation of the theory and has way too many religeous and social angles..
There is also the theory that things only exist when they are perceived by my senses.. The person I speak to now may disapear when they are no longer in my perception. I dont base any credibility in this because Im certainly not THAT ego-centric
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"Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?"
-- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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