Saturday, February 26, 2011

what do you know ?


i know nothing...

sometimes...

i think i know something...

but then i realize...

there is no way to know.

(hint)

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2 comments:

Ed Newman said...

These kinds of philosophical musings are nothing new. What's real and what is not is a main point in Plato's parable of the cave. Descarte did his part to affirm his existence based on the conclusion he was thinking and at least knew that, but others have suggested, "What if my existence is all but something going on in someone else's dream?"
I think, however, that if we look at children playing in the yard we will see that none of them has any doubts about his or her own existence, or the existence of his playmate's toys. In this we discern the probability that as adults we start to think too much.

Another issue these questions raise is that if we have any doubts about others' existence it will undercut our empathy with their suffering.

just my two cents...
e.

February 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Oberon said...

...whatever it is, i confirm my existence...i just wonder what it's made of.

...you should make a post about our existence.

February 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM

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