(September 11, 2015 at 2:59 pm)Rational AKD Wrote:(September 11, 2015 at 2:39 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: If there is no matter, let me chuck this encyclopedia at your head and see if you duck. If matter doesn't exist, you shouldn't be concerned with it hitting you in the face, right? Assuming you don't mind?...under monistic idealism the world we experience is a simulation. so the appearance of matter, the feeling of pain etc. are also simulated. just think of that line in the matrix 'I thought it wasn't real.' 'your mind makes it real.'
But if you truly believe this, you don't live that way. Do you look both ways before you cross the street?
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
