"I think therefore I am" ~René Descartes~
OK, so all of us are plainly each an individual consciousness, and that part of us exists at least. To deny that is to truly lose your grip on reality (lol see what I did there?). As for our physical bodies, and the physical world, that's harder to prove the existence of, if someone does suggest that it's an illusion.
While it's literally impossible to prove the existence of our reality sue to the nature of the suggestion, all I can say about it is this. Whatever the physical word is, fake or not, it adheres to a certain set of physical laws, which we have observed through science. This shows that, while it may not be real, it is consistent.
Also, we can interact with other things in this universe that can be observed, without exception. That is all we really need to know about the matter.
As we can see, there has never been any signs to suggest that what we can sense is fake, and the fact that this world is so consistent (and we all seem to see the exact same things as each other which rules out separate hallucinations) seems to show that this is no mass hallucination, nor somebody else's dream. To be honest this question is nonsensical. There is not a smidgen of evidence that suggests that this is not really reality, and even if it is, why should that affect us? we couldn't escape it if we wanted to, and I'm quite happy living in this world.
This is why I think philosophy shouldn't be a career. It causes people to waste time thinking about a lot of senseless ideas that are entirely inconsequential to anybody (unless they dwell on the idea and get upset by it). Just think, some of those genius philosophers could have applied their knowledge to something USEFUL like science and actually HELPED us progress.
Deep thinking is often good, but philosophy takes it too far.
BTW, sorry for the wall of text. I won't mind if you say "tl;dr"
OK, so all of us are plainly each an individual consciousness, and that part of us exists at least. To deny that is to truly lose your grip on reality (lol see what I did there?). As for our physical bodies, and the physical world, that's harder to prove the existence of, if someone does suggest that it's an illusion.
While it's literally impossible to prove the existence of our reality sue to the nature of the suggestion, all I can say about it is this. Whatever the physical word is, fake or not, it adheres to a certain set of physical laws, which we have observed through science. This shows that, while it may not be real, it is consistent.
Also, we can interact with other things in this universe that can be observed, without exception. That is all we really need to know about the matter.
As we can see, there has never been any signs to suggest that what we can sense is fake, and the fact that this world is so consistent (and we all seem to see the exact same things as each other which rules out separate hallucinations) seems to show that this is no mass hallucination, nor somebody else's dream. To be honest this question is nonsensical. There is not a smidgen of evidence that suggests that this is not really reality, and even if it is, why should that affect us? we couldn't escape it if we wanted to, and I'm quite happy living in this world.
This is why I think philosophy shouldn't be a career. It causes people to waste time thinking about a lot of senseless ideas that are entirely inconsequential to anybody (unless they dwell on the idea and get upset by it). Just think, some of those genius philosophers could have applied their knowledge to something USEFUL like science and actually HELPED us progress.
Deep thinking is often good, but philosophy takes it too far.
BTW, sorry for the wall of text. I won't mind if you say "tl;dr"
