(July 26, 2012 at 11:16 am)Skepsis Wrote: I meant, of course, that not being able to trust your senses or memory at all would make reality unlivable. Similar to Schizophrenia, not being able to trust your senses or memory would be catastrophic.
Is there a proof for these truths, or are we only allotted their practicality and circular argumentation?
Is our intuition the only thing we have to justify these types of beliefs?
Do you dream? Is the awareness in that state, unlivable. Now which state is more significant, or another way of testing this would be to see which state is necessary. in the practical conciousness we know sleep deprivation very soon harms, but a person can be sedated for long periods, therefore the argument could be supported things are the opposite of your statement.
Even in a dream state, or heavily drugged we will it seems create some sort of narrative, so we cannot even say that a consistent narrative is proof.
Intuition is the only possible starting point. Every theory starts with a guess. Maybe one theory could have a structure that the guess could be proven, or maybe not.
