(July 25, 2013 at 10:47 pm)Walking Void Wrote: Shit guys. I did not know that the Philosophy Forum was a place to just joke around. Maybe I should have had this in off-topic. Some funny stuff though.
I mean, I could joke around too but I was kinda anticipating something to ponder about.
My answer was actually serious. I find very little in my life that I can be absolutely certain of, but thanks to evolution, I can be quite sure that a knife being inserted into my leg will cause me to experience pain.
I think that much of what we feel we are certain of is an illusion, but baser biologic reactions is not one of them.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
