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Why hasn't this been mentioned yet?

CHIM

i don't.

[quote=zoneflare2]I see there for I am me[/quote]

Blind people aren't real people anyway.

[quote=Grez]I think
Therefore i am[/quote]
...and i must scream

Yuck, this better be reality. If I'm living in a dream void of monsters and magic and dinosaurs I'll kill myself.

It's funny I run into this thread as I'm playing FFIX atm and Vivi's thing is "How do you prove you exist? Maybe we don't exist." The simple fact that we are aware proves that we exist. Even if we were dreams, or something else, we are conscience of the fact that we just [i]are[/i]. Who's to say dreams aren't real? They're very real experiences created by our brains when our minds are relaxed and unfocused on the physical plane.

I like trains

nothing is true, everything is permitted

learn the meaning and you shall have your answer

OT: you can't really prove it you know its just something you feel inside you, i mean you just know you exist, another example of something like this happening would be love or hate you know you love or hate that person, and yet you can't prove it up to a limited degree

No, especially when you can't really define existence. Does simply being in a computer simulation mean that we don't exist?

I actually was reading an article this morning about how they may be able to potentially prove that we don't exist inside a computer simulation, but it's still purely theoretical.

[quote=Laker1294]Cells undergo meiosis though.[/quote]

Not the large majority of them...

Ive created fake detailed memories of the past in my dreams and when I wake up I'm not sure if they happened or not

[quote=Cecelia]My cells reproduce?[/quote]

Cells undergo meiosis though.

My cells reproduce?

No server check?

[quote=DoesNotMatter]@tapstapito: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KywvdyDlhKg[/quote]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I MISS THAT SHOW SO BADLY

Foster's Home of Imaginary Friends will always have a special place in my heart <3

[quote=ItzPootz] Whatever we are, we appear to exist in a system which behaves according to a static set of parameters (the laws of physics); and there is strong evidence that the universe has been following these laws since time began. Therefore, heuristically, it's more sensible to assume that it will continue following these laws into the foreseeable future as well.
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we've started gathering this kind of information just 600 years ago. it is too early to make assumptions like those

and @fraddBS thats a fallacy

I'm sorry, but unless you're a philosophy-class taker like one of my roommates, you aren't qualified to ask questions that you can't even answer yourself.

[quote=xsitsu]@tapstapito: Is it arrogant to believe that the maple world was created for us, the players?[/quote]

no. but if the universe is really infinite, then maple world is infinite times smaller and more simple than our universe
if it is just really really really really really big, then maple world is "really really really really really big" times smaller and more simple than our universe

I'm real. I error: cannot parse {existence} at thread 2525982

[quote=xsitsu]If it isn't much trouble, I'd actually like to know what you think about my claim.[/quote]
dude, its big my answer will be even bigger...
i'll not argue just expose my thoughts.

i'm materialist so most of what you said sounds fake to me. but "there's no individuals, we're all technically the same being just reincarnated throughout time and existence." this is the part i disagree the most: i mean we are not bees we live in society not in colony. we have our individualities and stuff.

and i dont see the world this teleological. i mean we are sooooo small and the whole universe is meant to be our "incubator" only? that sound a lot arogant.

sorry for being too short it's almost 1AM here.

What constitutes something as reality?
A crazy person's reality is different form a "normal" person's

what if i wished i didnt exist?

dun dun dunnnn

@tapstapito: That isn't paranoia, its being delusional.

I posted my final thoughts on this subject.

[quote=fun2killu]There are too many variables to make this assumption. Also, who would brainwash me and how?[/quote]

it might sound paranoid but w/e.
you might have been brainwashed by aliens or some evil organization, and how? they keep it a secret.

After much deliberation i concluded; i can provide evidence for my existence but i can't prove it.

@tapstapito: [url=http://i.imgur.com/wlvgu.jpg]uh ok[/url]

whether we truly exist or not is simply not for us to decide but is for others to confirm just as if a tree branch falls in the middle of a forest and no one is around to hear it, the sound may resound but does not exists to others unless there was a person to confirm or witness the events happening. That is just how us humans are: we are ignorant mass of a social species with a extremely large spectrum that gauges our curiosity to discover, confirm, or banish from the depths of our minds. Therefore we get the phrase, seeing is believing because an event only exists in the minds of those who witness and confirm its existence.

[quote=Wintermelon][url=http://i.imgur.com/z0ujn.jpg]proof?[/url][/quote]
it might be a robot or photoshop.

I'm still in Castle Oblivion, sleeping, while my Nobody is out in the world fighting monsters.

[quote=tapstapito]you might have been brainwashed when you were a baby to see no evidence of the possible fact that the reality is a dream or a ilusion. and the memories of being a bay are gone so you dont remember being brainwashed.[/quote]

There are too many variables to make this assumption. Also, who would brainwash me and how?

[url=http://i.imgur.com/z0ujn.jpg]proof?[/url]

[quote=fun2killu]There is no evidence to suggest that the reality i am experiencing is a dream or an illusion.[/quote]

you might have been brainwashed when you were a baby to see no evidence of the possible fact that the reality is a dream or a ilusion. and the memories of being a bay are gone so you dont remember being brainwashed.

My psychology teacher once told us this and we kind of went a little philosophical with it We eventually ended up with this question: How can you prove you aren't currently laying down on a bed sleeping while some mad scientists are picking your brain, creating this world for you?
"Well I don't remember getting captured" They could've easily erased that memory.
"Pretty sure that's not possible to erase a memory so easily" How would you know? The scientist picking in your brain could of easily manipulated your brain to think that.

There is no evidence to suggest that the reality i am experiencing is a dream or an illusion.

@tapstapito: Computers can't handle particles x1000 the size of an atom in simple shapes like triangle prisms. There's no way they could handle this type of simulation.

I see different people (never seen them before) in reality while in my dreams I see people that I've already seen before or encountered.

I stabbed my hand with a knife and it hurt.

[quote=setget]I can see detail. In dreams, there is no detail. Computer programs aren't advanced enough to operate every atom atom around me.[/quote]

couse you are INSIDE the computer and thus you cant create a program that is more complex than the one you are inside?

When sites tell me to prove that I'm human, I write in the captcha code. That means I exist.

I can see detail. In dreams, there is no detail. Computer programs aren't advanced enough to operate every atom atom around me.

@tapstapito: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KywvdyDlhKg

[quote=DoesNotMatter]Cuz if i stabbed my self in the left nostril that went up in shanked my brain, i would feel the ubareable pain and die. Thats proof enuf br0[/quote]

so your are implying that one must feel pain to exist? so bacterias, viruses and even jellyfish dont exist?

Red pill or blue pill, bro.

Cuz if i stabbed my self in the left nostril that went up in shanked my brain, i would feel the ubareable pain and die. Thats proof enuf br0

[quote=Grez]I think
Therefore i am[/quote]

naaahh. you might be thinking inside of someone head or a computer program or even you are in coma and this is just your memories.

because you're here.