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Why the brain isn`t you
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<blockquote data-quote="partinobodycular" data-source="post: 77546738" data-attributes="member: 435281"><p>FYI, I'm an epistemological solipsist, so I draw the line at Descartes "Cogito ergo sum"... "I think therefore I am". Although to be perfectly clear I even have problems with that, as to whether I'm actually the thinker, or the thoughts. But that's a whole different rabbit hole.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course there are things to stop me. In fact they're theoretically the exact same things that stop anyone else. Reality behaves exactly the same way regardless of whether it's physically real or an illusion. Even in an illusion a needle in the eye still hurts.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As I said, illusion or not reality still feels the same. Things still obey the laws of physics, and I still feel pain and emotions. There is however some degree of comfort in the idea that reality may not be as cruel and heartless as it appears to be... for the only one suffering may be me. And what I gain from it may be far more valuable than what it costs me.</p><p></p><p>So ask yourself... even though life is often cruel and unjust, am I better for having lived it? The answer to that question may be intimately connected with the manner in which you choose to live it. So simply choose to live it well, and then the pain won't matter so much, and the prison won't matter so much, and loving thy neighbor won't seem like quite so much to ask.</p><p></p><p>But that's just me. I'm not suggesting that anyone else should be a solipsist. Perhaps you'd rather call yourself a stoic... or heaven forbid... a Christian. When it comes to being a righteous person, does it really matter how one gets there?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="partinobodycular, post: 77546738, member: 435281"] FYI, I'm an epistemological solipsist, so I draw the line at Descartes "Cogito ergo sum"... "I think therefore I am". Although to be perfectly clear I even have problems with that, as to whether I'm actually the thinker, or the thoughts. But that's a whole different rabbit hole. Of course there are things to stop me. In fact they're theoretically the exact same things that stop anyone else. Reality behaves exactly the same way regardless of whether it's physically real or an illusion. Even in an illusion a needle in the eye still hurts. As I said, illusion or not reality still feels the same. Things still obey the laws of physics, and I still feel pain and emotions. There is however some degree of comfort in the idea that reality may not be as cruel and heartless as it appears to be... for the only one suffering may be me. And what I gain from it may be far more valuable than what it costs me. So ask yourself... even though life is often cruel and unjust, am I better for having lived it? The answer to that question may be intimately connected with the manner in which you choose to live it. So simply choose to live it well, and then the pain won't matter so much, and the prison won't matter so much, and loving thy neighbor won't seem like quite so much to ask. But that's just me. I'm not suggesting that anyone else should be a solipsist. Perhaps you'd rather call yourself a stoic... or heaven forbid... a Christian. When it comes to being a righteous person, does it really matter how one gets there? [/QUOTE]
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