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Brain Waves and God
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RE: Brain Waves and God
July 6, 2009 at 5:22 pm (This post was last modified: July 6, 2009 at 5:26 pm by Ryft.)
My apologies, obsessed_philosopher. Solipsism is...
Quote:... the philosophical idea that one's own mind is all that exists. Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.

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So basically I was saying that, if a person's brain was stimulated in such a way as to cause him to think God was present in the room, that would make God real only if Solipsism is true.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
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Brain Waves and God

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Brain Waves and God - by Tabby - July 3, 2009 at 7:04 pm
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Overmars - July 4, 2009 at 3:23 am
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Tabby - July 4, 2009 at 11:40 am
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Kyuuketsuki - July 4, 2009 at 12:13 pm
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Tabby - July 4, 2009 at 7:26 pm
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Purple Rabbit - July 4, 2009 at 3:40 am
RE: Brain Waves and God - by leo-rcc - July 4, 2009 at 1:16 pm
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Overmars - July 5, 2009 at 12:30 am
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Edwardo Piet - July 5, 2009 at 5:25 pm
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Tsuyoiko - July 6, 2009 at 5:38 am
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Ryft - July 6, 2009 at 6:44 am
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Tabby - July 6, 2009 at 11:45 am
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Darwinian - July 6, 2009 at 2:24 pm
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Ryft - July 6, 2009 at 5:22 pm
RE: Brain Waves and God - by Anto Kennedy - August 3, 2009 at 4:34 pm

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