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Originally Posted by CraigS
So, we think we're living in reality whenever we go by intuition and trust our perceptions, eh ? Check this out …
This Video Illusion Will Destroy Your Brain
Plait goes on to make the point:
Ok .. so I'm convinced ... but the message (for me), is to take on everything science makes available, in order to not be drawn into believing the illusion.
For me, excluding any area of legitimate science, only results in not being able to see through some of the illusions.
Interesting snippet, eh ?
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How do you know that science isn't an illusion as well??. If our minds are so pliable and we shouldn't believe what we see (or even sense with any of our senses), then does anything we think or create have any more cogency than a whole lot of smoke and mirrors??. How can you even trust anything and what does that really say about us...as a species.
We are, therefore, all a mob of self delusion, fantasy prone beings. Nothing is real. I'm not even typing this. You don't exist. This physical reality is a fake. Science can't tell us anything different because it is a part of the illusion. It's not even very good at helping us clarify our delusion because it can't even answer some of the more important, yet simple questions of existence. Which makes it even more deluded because we're conning ourselves into thinking we have the answers, or will have them given enough time.
See where this existentialist, philosophical circular argument is heading.
You don't know what is real and what isn't. Nothing you have can tell you that. Nothing that is tied to this illusion, at least. And even then, how do you know that what you perceive isn't another illusion??.
What determines reality. What determines the truth. What allows you to perceive reality and truth through experience.
I'll let you figure that one out for yourselves
