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@rajputaman04 hey isn't that my reply question to Leo? You copy paste it word by word? Wtf?

Sorry not sure what you mean that dreams are thoughts.

It doesn't exist for you if you define existence as what you are directly conscious of right now. (I don't see why would you define it that way. You definitely don't act from this perspective.) Yet it exists for itself and for other conscious beings. So open up that possibility. It cannot be said for certain that's for sure. The best thing is to remain agnostic about such questions and adopt a pragmatic answer. Otherwise you will lose it in solipsism which is another word for madness.

Yes and no ofcourse.

As far as language that assumes an "other." I think it's ridiculous to police ourselves to such a degree that we avoid any reference to "individual other." I think you are limiting yourself to a great degree. I mean if you want to get down to it.. simply responding and writing responses on a forum equally assumes that there is an "individual other" as much as any other post even if you are careful about how you write. That being said.. I am not making that criticism of anyone or illusion of ego... I'm only pointing out the hypocrisy of even bringing up that criticism in the first place when you are on a forum interacting. I'm NOT interested in having this conversation about language and the implicit assumptions held within the normal way we communicate. . I think this is definitely not what I created this thread for..so it is off topic. if you have something regarding dreams and whatnot go ahead. Otherwise have a nice one.

Have you been skeptical about your own skepticism? It goes full circle and eats itself up. It won't change that you are you and not your mom. Apparently at least as experienced. You can imagine yourself to be a table.. But if someone comes and cuts the table into halfs you won't be affected at all..if someone come and cuts the Gesundheit avatar into halfs.. The real you will freak the fuck out.

Enjoy.

How do you know? Just nonsense. You clearly define yourself as the physical body. You don't go around confusing yourself with your mom don't you?

Welllllll whatever..... Life is life. Dreams are dreams. Tomato is tomatoes. To say life is a dream like saying tomatoes are actually potatoes. They are of the same origin but apparently they aren't. Get that? Cool. Now that doesn't really say anything about anything

Well honestly I'm completely comfortable to say that I know absolutely nothing about Jack shit. But let's not get too ahead of ourselves. Careful with assuming what's true before getting to it.

@Sempiternity Well life is certainly not a dream nor anything you think it is. It just is. Leo's right tho.. You can't draw a firm boundaries between dreams and life.. And that's part of the solipsist confusion that I have.. Is how do you know that your whole life is not one giant ass dream and that you are literally hallucinating the entire fucking universe?.... This doesn't seem answerable to me. It's a tricky fucking devil . So I kinda gave up on that question and resided back to actuality + not knowing.

Why tho? I mean since it exists there has to be a context for its existence. Maybe "why" is meaningless. Ultimately there is no how or why for things and I recently became conscious that reality is just there the way it is minus all explanations. Because there is nothing outside of reality to be the "why". The why is itself. Yet still stuff can be explained relatively. There might be no absolute why but there are plenty of relative whys. Brilliant analogy. Thank you

Isn't there a fundamental difference between the waking reality and dreams? The latter is objective and independently there while dreams are just Your subjective imagination? I mean they do feel the same superficially but don't you believe that the waking world is what's actually "real"? Yeah I guess it's related to the question of how to define anything at all or how does anything exist at all. And that's a correct description. Yes dreams fit the four points. Yet waking reality doesn't fit number 3.

Yeah. It doesn't get any better does it? Lol

Lol you are saying the dream is physically located in the neurons? And how do you see it? The eyes are not located there? And where do you find this change of size..from outside perspective you are just laying in your bed. From objective pov the dream doesn't even happen. It's a hallucination. But unlike with taking psychedelics you see hallucinations in your visual fields merged with physical reality.. But in the case of dreams.. The entire physical world gets erased and you find yourself inside the hallucination like a hologram.

Which is what? The main point is how it's getting a built? You notice dreams are phenomenally identical to so called waking reality?? It's a complete reality. How is it that your memories or whatever can materialize?

Here is the thing with materialism and 'brains 'when it comes to dreams... Let's suppose someone is dreaming.. The dreamer is seeing the dream..only the dreamer have access to the dream. If you look around the person you don't see anything.. He is normally laying in his bed.. Yet from his pov he is technically in a different universe!. Suppose we cut open his skull while he is dreaming.... What do you expect to find? You ain't gonna find his dream inside the skull lol .. You will simply find a dead piece of flesh (the brain).. So the dream is not found in the body in any place.... So Who's seeing? There has to be a non physical aspect.. Maybe the soul? And where is it occurring? Maybe dreams are a different realms. There is a deep mystery happening here. You are unconscious in your bed and simultaneously visiting invisible realms lol https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/are-dreams-incompatible-with-materialism/

doesnt say much.

sure you can zoom into a lizard forever . that is what i meant by you are not done by ending questions .you are done when you realize you are never done.

where are you right now?

interesting question . i think it has to depend on your meaning of evil . does eating meat count as evil? you have to realize reality is neutral. evil and good are projections .they are assigned by your mind. so ironically to be enlightened is to realize that everything is perfect already. but then ofcourse undoubtedly if all people are "enlightened" there will be less relative evil . i think yes.

@Intraplanetary well being honest with you.. I don't know and no one knows. Something as simple as "does the moon exist when you are not looking at it?". ... is actually unanswerable without a leap of faith. Without appealing to logic.. Reason.. Memories.. Relative knowledge.. And common sense. Which are all subject to uncertainty. As the only certain answer must come from looking at the moon while at the same time not looking at it. Quantum mechanics actually suggests that the electrons don't exist unless there is an observation process taking place. Without observing.. The electron remains as a possibility field . Existing as a probability rather than actual object. Now that might not apply to the macro level. There is no "actual" answer to solipsism. There is only "pragmatic" answers. Such as "you only going to live life and interact with others through your own pov Anyways..and this isn't gonna change whether you've answerd the solipsism question or not... So I mean..... Who cares? ?"

@Intraplanetary the thingy thing with the solipsism thing is it seems to be the ultimate conclusion of nonduality and idealism. To reject solipsism means that you must accept an external material world. Objectively existing independent of you. Not some fluffy consciousness imagining stuff. From Wikipedia : " Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. Epistemological solipsism : Epistemological solipsism is the variety of idealism according to which only the directly accessible mental contents of the solipsistic philosopher can be known. The existence of an external world is regarded as an unresolvable question rather than actually false.Further, one cannot also be certain as to what extent the external world exists independently of one's mind. For instance, it may be that a God-like being controls the sensations received by one's brain, making it appear as if there is an external world when most of it (excluding the God-like being and oneself) is false. However, the point remains that epistemological solipsists consider this an "unresolvable" question. ". As you can see it's undebunkable within its own terms. One cannot validate or invalidate the existence of that which supposedly exists outside one's own subjective experience. For example you can't prove that the past really happened.. All you have is a present moment. You can't prove that you are not a brain in vat.. Which an updated version of Rene Descartes's evil demon doubt. Common to many science fiction stories.. it outlines a scenario in which a mad scientist.. machine.. or other entity might remove a person's brain from the body.. suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid.. and connect its neurons by wires to a computer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives.According to such stories.. the computer would then be simulating reality (including appropriate responses to the brain's own output) and the "disembodied" brain would continue to have perfectly normal conscious experiences.. such as those of a person with an embodied brain.. without these being related to objects or events in the real world. This is also similar to simulation theory. It's actually not possible to prove with 100 %certainty that we are not inside a video game right now that some teenagers are playing in a different universe. Crazy stuff. Just avoid thinking along those lines.

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You know you are done when you are done. If you still asking questions that means it's still part of the process. Questions are endless. They must be if reality is endless. So I don't think you're "done" when there are no questions left. something else.