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The desk is still there, as confirmed by outside observers. If you are blind, is everything you touch non-existent?
by testrun 6y ago
The desk is still there, as confirmed by outside observers. If you are blind, is everything you touch non-existent?
- colordrops 6y agoHow do you know about "outside observers" other than through a model you formed in your mind by data received through your senses? "Objective reality" is just another shadow on Plato's wall that can be extinguished.
- vlovich123 6y agoNihilism is neat until you realize it makes not testable predictions. So sure, everything could be totally an illusion and your brain is hooked up to a computer somewhere (or it is a computer). That’s a metaphysical claim that’s not falsifiable and doesn’t even make any useful predictions. That’s not particularly relevant to a discussion about science and the Big Bang. In science we assume that multiple measurements by multiple people of the same phenomena gives us a good idea of the behavior and whether it matches our models. Our models will likely forever be incomplete but throwing our hands up in the air and trying to say “yes, but do we really know that” doesn’t seem helpful.
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- perl4ever 6y agoWhat if I am a few light-seconds away from the desk, so nobody "there" can confirm it exists "now"?