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Okay. I can see that in day to day life. People confusing sentences with actual knowing. Like labeling something a tree and thinking you know what a tree is bec
by hshshshshsh 2y ago
Okay. I can see that in day to day life. People confusing sentences with actual knowing. Like labeling something a tree and thinking you know what a tree is because you know it's a "tree".
But how did anyone verify there is an underlying reality outside consciousness? It's just an assumption right?
- timschmidt 2y ago> But how did anyone verify there is an underlying reality outside consciousness? It's the stuff which continues existing when we stop believing in it.
- dekhn 2y agoYes, it's taken on faith by scientists that we live in an objective universe with cold hard reality outside our consciousness. It seems like a reasonable assumption, consistent with all our observations. It seems not unreasonable to assume that in the early universe there was nothing living, then at some point, through random chance, the first living things became alive (possibly from some non-alive replicators), and then later, the first living things with consciousness came to be. Again, all of this is consistent with our observations, but effectively taken on faith/treated as an assumption.