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“We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all
by acheron 5mo ago
“We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?”
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
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- gavmor 5mo agoGive credit where credit is due: Descartes, Kant, Putnam, etc.
- sodaplayer 5mo agoIt'll be Brian Reynolds in this case. It's a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
- mattlondon 5mo agoHmm pretty sure I saw this in the thought traces of Claude the other day...
- dhosek 5mo agoMeditations on First Philosophy messed me up bad. All of Descartes’ reasoning about the inability to determine whether experience was real made complete sense to me. But when I got to where he started to try to build back reality, I didn’t buy it. I can only believe in reality by willfully forgetting Descartes.
- willis936 5mo agoBut take comfort in knowing you are not the void. Cogito ergo sum. It's the only true refute of solipsism.
- transitorykris 5mo agoIt’s really a solipsistic philosophy. The awkwardness of it was the fact he had a king and the church to appease in his arguments. Willfully forgetting Descartes is one way of dealing with it! (..or plotting a path out of it by reading him as a proto-existentialist)
- Gooblebrai 5mo agoSource: Bioenhancement Center (SMAC), Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri