RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
January 11, 2017 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2017 at 9:42 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 11, 2017 at 9:23 pm)Rhythm Wrote: No you're not, you're sitting in your chair playing a video game, surely you shouldn't need anyone else to inform you of that basic fact? Is this honestly what passes for philosophy, or an exploration of deeply meaningful metaphysical this or thats, to you?
Facepalm memes incoming, amirite? I feel it in the tone.
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GAME, I'm not sitting in the chair. That's because the game has its own rules and representations, and I buy (for the moment) into that context. And before you continue to mock me, you are doing just the same. Unless you are constantly thinking "I'm a cloud of ambiguous wave functions in a virtual space," you are experiencing a representation of something that may or may not even be there, and whatever it is, you don't know what it is any more than I do. And even if you ARE thinking that, you're not able to fully comprehend it anyway, because nobody can.
You can hit yourself on the head and say, "Rock feel hard, rock must be reality" but no matter how convincing that feels to you, it's not the rational conclusion that you seem to think it is.
(January 11, 2017 at 9:29 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You're no more running around a computer-generated landscape looking at computer-generated objects than you are injured by computer-generated bullets. I have personally flown to a simulated Moon in a simulated spacecraft that, no matter how sophisticated the graphics and the application of real-world physical laws, still gets me no nearer to being an astronaut than does dreaming.
What's this "real-world physical laws" you are talking about? Have you established the world really to be as you see it? I don't think so, and I'd really like to see you try to do so.
