A very interesting idea dagda and arcanus... myself being existentialist, i might be able to add some intellectual discourse into this already fascinating discussion. Rather than defending our universe with passionate faith (as some have tried in vain), I can defend us perfectly from non-existance with simple philosophy.
We may be a video game... an illusion... or even a bunch of vibrating single-dimensional strings.... but in all of those examples: we exist. The computer in front of me, the chair beneath me, the fairy creatures in my mind: all of them can be interacted with, and thus all of them must exist, in some form or another.
We are here having this discussion, so we must exist, based on the evidence of the discussion existing... even if the discussion is only an imagination or dream of your mind: it exists, and you are interacting, with it, therefore you exist. You might be a toy of a powerful being... but that toy exists. You may be the product of vibrating strings... but those strings, and therefore you, exist.
If our world did not exist in some way... then it follows that we would not exist. If we did not exist, then this discussion would not exist. But as the discussion you are reading exists... so does the thing that made it (you and me)... and so does the world that we live in.... and so does whatever made that.
Kyu, you are wrong to think that science and math are the only two phillosophies that can explain anything... there is always faith and existentialism: that all of our knowledge (being math, faith, science, and others) is based on assumption of our being correct, and that we are often wrong. I would discuss more, but i must do some errands soon, and will likely be off the internet for some extended time. I will reply to your response when i next get a chance, good day
We may be a video game... an illusion... or even a bunch of vibrating single-dimensional strings.... but in all of those examples: we exist. The computer in front of me, the chair beneath me, the fairy creatures in my mind: all of them can be interacted with, and thus all of them must exist, in some form or another.
We are here having this discussion, so we must exist, based on the evidence of the discussion existing... even if the discussion is only an imagination or dream of your mind: it exists, and you are interacting, with it, therefore you exist. You might be a toy of a powerful being... but that toy exists. You may be the product of vibrating strings... but those strings, and therefore you, exist.
If our world did not exist in some way... then it follows that we would not exist. If we did not exist, then this discussion would not exist. But as the discussion you are reading exists... so does the thing that made it (you and me)... and so does the world that we live in.... and so does whatever made that.
Kyu, you are wrong to think that science and math are the only two phillosophies that can explain anything... there is always faith and existentialism: that all of our knowledge (being math, faith, science, and others) is based on assumption of our being correct, and that we are often wrong. I would discuss more, but i must do some errands soon, and will likely be off the internet for some extended time. I will reply to your response when i next get a chance, good day
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
