RE: Free Will, Decision making and religion
March 14, 2015 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2015 at 2:23 pm by Ignorant.)
(March 14, 2015 at 10:43 am)JuliaL Wrote: In what reference frame is the feeling of having an identity an illusion? Are you a philosophical realist?
In reference to the proposed description of reality in the first post on this thread. Assuming reality is truly as the first post describes, then I think it would follow that identity is illusory, even if the apparent experience of identity actually occurs.
JuliaL Wrote:Identity is what it is. From there, reality is the illusion (or at least its actual existence is unprovable.)
I'm here. I'm not so sure about everything else.
That's fine. I don't think Descartes ever truly got farther than that either. It is interesting in itself that most of us on the planet (maybe not?) probably agree with you and here's why it's interesting: most people go about interacting with their perceived reality, with other people, and even investigate it, but always with the underlying reservation that says "it is possible that none of this is real". Weird.