RE: A thought experiment: The rainbow temple
March 27, 2014 at 6:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2014 at 6:49 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 27, 2014 at 2:43 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I see this as a tautology (where universe = all that exists).I don't think that definition is right. Universe means "one turning." Turning is a physical action, and I think this implies a physical reality. This excludes idealism, substance dualism and other possible modes of existence. But I don't think there's anything you can experience that can allow you to rightly discard those other modes of existence.
Be careful of choosing definitions for things which beg the question before the debate even starts.
(March 27, 2014 at 1:57 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Even though my reality of it is all I can experience, there is a separate 'thing' called the universe that exists regardless of me and will continue to even if I can perceive it or not.
How can you know this? How can you establish that the universe is not just a collection of ideas, that you are not in the Matrix or the mind of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
