The Philosophical Thread. Expand your Intelligence.

[Shredderbeam]

I would say that philosophy is nothing more than conceptual analysis, or the evaluating of the logic of a belief, statement, etc.

 

[The Supreme Intelligence]

Cool.

OK lol, this thread is dead...

 

[g0tg0t]

I believe I read this on a book once. The theory in there was that all times are going on at the same time, which would make time travel possible. All times, down the the very last nanosecond, are being repeated yet played forward at the same time.

As for the dream theory, I think dreams are us in different times or dimesions. Assuming the same person exists in every dimension, that is.

Don't flame, ponder it for a while. I saw down for a solid half hour thinking this over.

 

[Dingo212]

Matter # 3
(keep in mind not all that i post i believe in. this is purely to get you all thinking)

Platos cave. (my some of my own thoughts added in)

There are men trapped in a dark dreary cave all chained up to chairs. they are able to live without any means of water or food. behind the chairs there is a fire that gives off descent light and a civilization that lives by the fire. all the men that are chained up are ever able to see are shadows. they see shadows of cats, dogs, humans, house everything a civilization would have. one day a man chained up get loose. he rids his chains and escapes the cave. he is introduced to the real world he sees everything for the first time as the way most people now see it. he sees color. he sees real animals brown horses white cows etc. Surely this man wouldnt want to go back to this cave of his where he saw so little as it really was and if he did he'd be though of as crazy

sure back when he was in the cave he thought this was the only way of life because he knew no other. cant this happen to us? one second your reading this thread on your computer then something comes and takes you. you dont knwo where your going you don't know where you are but suddenly you see everything different. you see the reality a whole new way in which i cannot describe simply because i have never seen this reality. you dont want to come back to the others because you enjoy the new sights and fear youd be locked in a looney bin.

how do we know that what you are doing right now. reading this thread by me on your computer is not reality?

Out of all the theories, this one is something I thought about before. I am also convinced (just like there are other lives in the universe) that what we live now maybe not real. Why, even our own eye/brain could be faking it where as the reality we maybe eating shit of an alien and our brain maybe interpreting it as hamburger (now thats just an example...in that example, im taking out who made the hamburger etc)

 

[rs nechryeal]

too bad hes banned. he brought some nice points. but about platos cave. i read the actual article plato wrote about 2 days ago. of course u wouldnt want to go back. u just saw the real truth of the world. what kind of fool would want to go back to a place where they know everything is a lie? it would drive them insane. but i think there was another meaning about how people dont pay attention to people who r really in power. i think it was more a political statement about his time. there is really more to that story.

 

[Shredderbeam]

Out of all the theories, this one is something I thought about before. I am also convinced (just like there are other lives in the universe) that what we live now maybe not real. Why, even our own eye/brain could be faking it where as the reality we maybe eating shit of an alien and our brain maybe interpreting it as hamburger (now thats just an example...in that example, im taking out who made the hamburger etc)

Your eyes could be deceiving you, but what are the odds of that?

All things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the best.

 

[cave_ranger]

what do you think about colors? i know its kind of irrelevant, but a friend and I were having a discussion about perception and this came up.

What if what i percieve as green, someone else percieves as red? and the same with light and dark?

There would be absolutely no way to know, but it always made me think.