(July 23, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Cato Wrote:(July 23, 2015 at 11:39 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: That physical reality exists (is really real) is a premise, not a conclusion. It's a brute fact which one can accept but not prove. We can't know we're not immaterial minds baking in an illusion of physical reality.
I understand the philosophical point being made, but it's meaningless for the same reason everyone ducks when something is hurled at their face. Even if we knew we were immaterial minds and that physical reality was an illusion we would still have to navigate it as if it were not an illusion.
To a certain extent that would be true, but then it begs the question of where to draw the line as in the end, everything is meaningless.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
