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How do we know that reality itself isn't a mass hallucination?

• kylek 8y ago
  Why a "mass" hallucination? Are you sure you aren't the only thing "out there" asking this question to yourself?
  • SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
    Descartes ruined my perception of reality. He got me down to the bottom of that well, but couldn't get me out.
• machiavelli1024 8y ago
  Wooooow dude, I bet noone came up with this idea before! Very trippy! 420!
• JackFr 8y ago
  Because it's shared. Assuming you accept the existence of other minds, what makes reality real, is that it's shared. Schizophrenic hallucinations are no less real to the sufferer than so-called normal experiences. What makes reality real is that every shares the experience. That raises interesting questions about what is real and what is not, but also questions about how much of reality is really the residue of culture and worldview.
  • empath75 8y ago
    But people have wildly differing interpretations of reality.
    • fossuser 8y ago
      That's where science and experimentation comes in to some extent - individuals should be able to reproduce results of someone else and see the behavior of reality for themselves.