(March 13, 2015 at 11:41 pm)Marsellus Wallace Wrote:(March 13, 2015 at 10:59 pm)Nestor Wrote: I think the bigger problem is that they're quite under-rated by people who don't care to think about the nature of reality on levels deeper than their everyday intuitions and experiences.
My brain gets overloaded and shuts down when I think about stuff like that...
Quite understandable, Marsellus, but it can be dangerous.
You have to keep up at least a little or you can't, with confidence, rebut those who make unwarranted claims.
For instance there are a couple of problems that NOBODY has been able to solve, EVER.
1) Is there actually a reality out there AKA the hard problem of solipsism.
2) Will the future be largely similar to the past; the problem of induction.
People who claim to have solved these problems (or make arguments dependent on their having solved them) are deluded or liars and should be confronted as such. You personally don't have to have a correct solution or feel inadequate that you don't. Just making shit up is uncool.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
