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What is your epistemology?
#41
RE: What is your epistemology?
(September 14, 2010 at 9:23 am)ib.me.ub Wrote: @Adrain: I can understand why you would think that things may not exist, but.....

How can the mind exist without the outside World!

In what context does your mind exist? Where is it? What is it? What is the mechanism by which your mind exists (is carried)?

Is Pain not a good example of the physical world.

There is an argument that "the outside world" as you state, is a projection of the mind and may or may not actually be 'real' ....(read Buddhism)
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#42
RE: What is your epistemology?
Yes I understand this, I have thought this myself!

The questions are,

What is the mechanism by which your mind exists?

In what context does your mind exist?

Where is it?

What is it?
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#43
RE: What is your epistemology?
(September 14, 2010 at 9:36 am)ib.me.ub Wrote: Yes I understand this, I have thought this myself!

The questions are,

What is the mechanism by which your mind exists?

In what context does your mind exist?

Where is it?

What is it?

Life's a buzz eh??

Grateful for any input there 'ib.me.ub' ...no seriously!!Thinking

"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#44
RE: What is your epistemology?
Quote:Life's a buzz eh??

It is indeed.

In regards to my questions, I have convinced myself that the outside world does indeed exist. I believe that myself has now accepted that reality does indeed exist, which was no easy task.
Therefore, I have no need to try and understand these very difficult questions in regards to this particular way of thinking. But , I believe I may not actually be able to answer these questions.

However, I have tried. e.g. If I ask myself 'where are you' the answer seems to be 'I am here', which does not help to deduct an answer! If I use logic, the same thing applies.

Can these questions even be correctly answered?

Has anyone else thought of a plausible answer to my questions, in regards to the context of the converstaion! ie, if the physical world does not exist.
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