(September 11, 2015 at 3:09 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: But how do you die if the matter causing you to die does not exist? How can something that does not exist cause your mind to cease existing? Or since it is your mind making it real, would this be mental suicide? In the Matrix, there still existed the physical world, just that they were acting in an alternate reality as a byproduct of their mind. Outside the Matrix they were very material.ok, i'll grant you that. dying in an idealist world would be more comparable to dying in a video game. your physical body (or at least the simulated parts of it) dies but your mind is still in tact. this also provides a reasonable explanation how we can have an afterlife.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo
