or maybe it is the matrix...
seriously now, there's so many different views on what's really real and what only seems like it's real.
Philosophers have debated it for years.
Chuang Tsu talked once about a man dreaming he was a butterfly. Which one was really him? the man or the butterfly?
Berkeley had said that there's no such thing as matter really, it's all a bunch of ideas interact to form an illusion of actual matter being there, a la the matrix. When his friends locked the doors on him and he banged aboutbegging to be let in they laughed at him saying that the door was just a set of ideas so poor Berkeley should be able to just walk right in.
XD
others such as hobbes took a materialistic point of view. the mind and ideas and such aren't really real. they're just chemical reactions and matter interacting with matter in rather messy ways that we often were deluded in to believing were thoughts and reasons.
Some people were solipists which meant they only thing real was them and everything else was something their own individual minds made up to keep them from getting bored.
I always felt life was like a dream, but such a realistic dream i wouldn't ever really know if i would wake up. or even more strange, if life is but a dream within a dream, and if i wake up, would that too be a dream?
what are your thoughts on the matter?
seriously now, there's so many different views on what's really real and what only seems like it's real.
Philosophers have debated it for years.
Chuang Tsu talked once about a man dreaming he was a butterfly. Which one was really him? the man or the butterfly?
Berkeley had said that there's no such thing as matter really, it's all a bunch of ideas interact to form an illusion of actual matter being there, a la the matrix. When his friends locked the doors on him and he banged aboutbegging to be let in they laughed at him saying that the door was just a set of ideas so poor Berkeley should be able to just walk right in.
XD
others such as hobbes took a materialistic point of view. the mind and ideas and such aren't really real. they're just chemical reactions and matter interacting with matter in rather messy ways that we often were deluded in to believing were thoughts and reasons.
Some people were solipists which meant they only thing real was them and everything else was something their own individual minds made up to keep them from getting bored.
I always felt life was like a dream, but such a realistic dream i wouldn't ever really know if i would wake up. or even more strange, if life is but a dream within a dream, and if i wake up, would that too be a dream?
what are your thoughts on the matter?