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at the end of the day, things do exist, move around, interact whether I care to ponder them or not How do you know? Maybe things out of your sight that you don
by Kenji 10y ago
at the end of the day, things do exist, move around, interact whether I care to ponder them or not
How do you know? Maybe things out of your sight that you don't ponder about cease to exist for brief times.
- a3n 10y agoI don't think the brain is powerful enough to maintain and project state for all the things we can observe these days.
- drdeca 10y agoThe brain? I don't think George Berkeley would have attributed that to /the brain/. If one is considering whether there are objects independent of the objects being perceived, I would think that doubting whether the brain is what facilitates(?) our perception would also be questioned.
- prostoalex 10y agoNeither is a CPU. A powerful GPU or cluster of GPUs, however ...
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- olalonde 10y agoUnless there is some way to distinguish "things out of your sight that you don't ponder about cease to exist for brief times" from "things out of your sight continue to exist", I find the latter phrasing easier to reason about.