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Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
(July 15, 2015 at 11:40 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: I know the definition of the word. I was just following OP's lead. I thought you were too. Sometimes we do mean something else when talking about words, in fact it's the only way to properly communicate. Language is as imperfect a way of communication as it gets. Words define words. We might disagree about the words behind the words of the words, and so on. I think you got what I mean.

Following the OP's lead?  If I misconstrued that you were saying consciousness isn't real, I apologize.  That doesn't change the fact, however, that you responded with hostility.

(July 15, 2015 at 11:40 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: Please stop being such an asshole. I get that you are trying to build a strawman out of me, in order to be able to ignore my logic, but do it without attempting to judge character and rather criticise the arguments themselves, just as I do.

Without attempting to judge character? Is that what you were doing when you wrote this?

Quote:...won't prove anything but how naive you are.

or this?  

Quote:You're just inevitably biased...

Lol.  "Stop being such an asshole.  Only I get to do that."


(July 15, 2015 at 11:40 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: Let me put it differently. How can you prove to me that you are aware/conscious, let alone that I am?

A deeper question that I don't have time to answer right now.  I have to go get my head shrunk.  Maybe later.  Cheers.
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
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Reality doesn't exist until we observe it. - by dyresand - July 12, 2015 at 11:26 pm
RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it. - by Faith No More - July 15, 2015 at 1:51 pm

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