Thread: This world is in our mind (is a dream)

Well then, if all is as you imagine, you must be simply engaged in the ultimate mental masterbation. Talk about a self-referential fallacy.

While you are at it, conjur me up a wife--someone who cherishes the mind.

Without the footy, its fiction.


End of story

The world is in our mind, I dont know so much about it all being a dream, but everything we think and experience, or see with our own eyes all has to be processed in the mind before it becomes real.

there is no such thing as pain, it's an illusion, right? thats because when we step on a nail, there is a signal sent to our brain, our brain says OUCH, and then we feel the pain associated with stepping on the nail. this process happends in too short of time for us to be aware.

Nothing like effect before cause.

there is no such thing as pain, it's an illusion, right? thats because when we step on a nail, there is a signal sent to our brain, our brain says OUCH, and then we feel the pain associated with stepping on the nail. this process happends in too short of time for us to be aware.

Well, I don't quite see how your chain of logic works. You acknowledge that human experience is, in reality, not direct. We all form a model of the world via the interpretation of sensory information in the brain. Does this mean that pain does not exist? Absolutely not. It is information being interpreted by the brain. Is it an illusion? That depends on your definition of an "illusion". By labeling pain as illusory, you effectively label all of the human experience as illusory.