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Manic_Skafe · 01-27-2011, 06:34 PM

Well, what could one ever hope to experience beyond - and if not beyond then at least through - one's own sensations? Wouldn't the ability to do so require you to be something more than just yourself? Something godly, something seriously unhuman?

I'm probably not doing much to satisfy the OP but I see reality not as this thing which exists in actuality but as the result of ceaseless response to sensory stimuli, the selective interpretation of those inputs and a fabrication or projection of the real - of reality - on the part of your body and mind.

I realize none of that really gets at any of the questions posed but how can you really when doing so requires you first transform yourself into something else?

Solipsism couldn't serve as a solution to any of these problems as it simply repackages them and raises a few more of it's own. Reality may not exist, there may be no other minds out there and everything you experience may well be your own self-generated delusion but seeing such an idea as anything more than just an idea results in the same old regress you're attempting to rise above.

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The experience of life may not result in any real definitive truth but it certainly constitutes a truth. Aside from it being all we've really got, I see it simply as a much more useful mechanism for sorting out what we're doing before we die than pitting ourselves against the unresolvable and feigning paralysis.

Maybe I shouldn't have responded.

01-27-2011, 06:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
Manic_Skafe More Than You Expect Location: Queens	Well, what could one ever hope to experience beyond - and if not beyond then at least through - one's own sensations? Wouldn't the ability to do so require you to be something more than just yourself? Something godly, something seriously unhuman? I'm probably not doing much to satisfy the OP but I see reality not as this thing which exists in actuality but as the result of ceaseless response to sensory stimuli, the selective interpretation of those inputs and a fabrication or projection of the real - of reality - on the part of your body and mind. I realize none of that really gets at any of the questions posed but how can you really when doing so requires you first transform yourself into something else? Solipsism couldn't serve as a solution to any of these problems as it simply repackages them and raises a few more of it's own. Reality may not exist, there may be no other minds out there and everything you experience may well be your own self-generated delusion but seeing such an idea as anything more than just an idea results in the same old regress you're attempting to rise above. ... The experience of life may not result in any real definitive truth but it certainly constitutes a truth. Aside from it being all we've really got, I see it simply as a much more useful mechanism for sorting out what we're doing before we die than pitting ourselves against the unresolvable and feigning paralysis. Maybe I shouldn't have responded. __________________ "Porn is a zoo of exotic animals that becomes boring upon ownership." -Nersesian Last edited by Manic_Skafe; 01-27-2011 at 06:36 PM..