Short answer: You don't know. |
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I am the only conscious human on this world. You however could easily be compared to as a non-playable-character in a video game. You have no sense of self, no will, ect. Your animated to behave like me, and prepare responses like "I think, therefore I am". It's all just an act, stop pretending. |
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Short answer: You don't know. |
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Yes, yes. of course we could never know for sure. But the idea is just mind blowing! |
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No one knows what happens after you die. Death could be just the beginning. |
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"Above All, Love"
~Unknown~
Lucid dreaming, and dreaming in general (really nonlucid dreaming, mostly) has a lot to do with this idea. I've always found it best to just assume that everyone else is, in some capacity, real, even if they're only real insofar as a 3-dimensional digital representation of a Tauren mage is real. If no one else is real, finding out would probably drive a person insane (either gibbering or a megalomaniacal sociopath). If everyone is real (insofar as a bunch of wads of energy joining together to make what appears to be a human being is real), then it's not worth finding out the hard way. So I dont; think it really matters, until we find some way to prove this definitively (and either everyone is real, and we disprove it or not, or everyone is fake, and either I assume everyone;s proved real, I assume everyone;s proved fake, or nothing is ever asumed to be proven). |
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If no one else is real, and they are just npcs, it wouldn't really make any difference. Everyone would just "think" you're crazy, and you'd probably be locked away regardless of if it's true or not. Real or not, their actions have real effects on your life. |
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"Above All, Love"
~Unknown~
How do we know the topic of this thread really exists? |
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How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
I think it would be impossible to explain to someone that everyone around him does exist and isn't like a non-playable-character in a game. |
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Wow, after thinking about this, I'm never going to think about people around me the same way again. Thanks, now I think everybody is an automated character designed to annoy or entertain me. |
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Question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Answer: Neither, single-celled organisms did.
LD's - 3
Yeah this dates back to Descartes. |
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I'm feeling in the mood for a particularly cruel psychological prank today, what say we go find someone and pester them in a room full of people told ahead of time to ignore us? See how long it takes him to believe either he's hallucinating, or nobody else is real. |
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I think most people at some point or another entertain the notion that maybe they are the only "real person." |
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I didn't know you were autistic. Also...who says I act like you bitch! I never heard of you untill whenever it was I heard of you, shit. |
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Last edited by Sandform; 08-01-2008 at 03:25 PM. Reason: This comma brought to by the foundation of stopping idiocy.
Or perhaps only one person is real in the world, and you are simply the hallucination of that person. For everything is merely that one person's dream... |
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-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
Or perhaps we are the dream of a giant God who has a flower growing out of his belly button and when he wakes up we go poof. |
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Last edited by Sandform; 08-01-2008 at 04:19 PM.
No, no, no! You're all doing it wrong! We're supposed to agree with him to freak him out! >:U |
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Abraxas
Originally Posted by OldSparta
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I'm offended how dare you say I exist... |
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What is this "real" mean? A soul? |
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Last edited by TimeStopper; 08-01-2008 at 11:52 PM.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Einstein
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