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Believing the Impossible?
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Yes. In addition to what I've already listed, some crazy people can believe anything. If one can be insane, then she can believe anything.
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Skeptics say we cannot know truth . . . even if there is such a thing. Skeptics can't prove that a chair exists and yet they still sit down. Skeptic Steve Pinker writes and sells books saying: "There is no executive you at the core of your life. The notion of 'you' is just an illusion." So if there is no such thing as Steve Pinker then who keeps cashing his checks?
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Well, I don't know that we should be so quick to pigeonhole. There are some skeptics that believe that, but there are many self-professed others who would just claim, "The process of finding truly convincing truth seems difficult and laborious."
That doesn't seem so unreasonable, no? Maybe what you're aiming for is more like the epistemic relativism camp, and not so much the generally-skeptical one.
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This concept of the absence of a sort of central identity dates at least back to the Buddha. I'm more familiar with Hume's characterizations, though, so I'll work with those.
So, Descartes, in his "Cogito, ergo sum," says that because he thinks, he knows that he exists. Hume's critique is that it does not follow from the existence of thought that there is someone who is thinking them. He suggests that, instead, a mind may be nothing more than a bundle of thoughts and perceptions, and that they have no core substance that combines them all into a coherent and willing individual.
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That just can't be lived out with any consistency. Flys in the face of simple reality.
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No one. What we think of as 'Steve Pinker' would be an illusion. The only things we truly know are those logical necessities: besides mathematical derivation, the only thing I know to exist is myself (i.e., my concious, thinking mind). Thereafter, we must make assumptions, and thus introduce a degree of uncertainty. For example, we all make the assumption that our sense aren't lying to us: there really is my birthday cake in front of me. I really am typing on my computer.
These epistemological assumptions are exceedingly likely to be true, but nonetheless contain the possibility of being false: it is entirely possible that I'm just a brain in a vat being subjected to a false (albeit complex) reality. You, PujolsNonRoidHomerHitter, might not exist from my point of view.
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