• Vsauce - How do you know?
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Ah, metaphysics.
the upside down tongue thing also works with your dick fyi [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] don't ask me how i came to that realization
[QUOTE=bull04;40895098]Solipsism is an interesting concept. I think about that very thing a LOT when I'm alone. What if everything around me is fake and I'm making it up?[/QUOTE] Yeah, what if it was? What difference would it make?
I think the way he speaks is fucking annoying
I don't.
[QUOTE=bull04;40895098]Solipsism is an interesting concept. I think about that very thing a LOT when I'm alone. What if everything around me is fake and I'm making it up?[/QUOTE] When I was a kid I used to think for fun that everyone else are aliens disguised as humans and they have captured me and they are conducting a experiment on human behavior, and they have telekinetic skills so they can read my mind.
[QUOTE=Tarmac;40897651]When I was a kid I used to think for fun that everyone else are aliens disguised as humans and they have captured me and they are conducting a experiment on human behavior, and they have telekinetic skills so they can read my mind.[/QUOTE] Fuck, he's onto us! Someone warn Overmaster Xporlpigp!
I sometimes think that areas and places of the world that I never see video of or experience in real person do not exist. Sort of similar to clipping through walls in a game and seeing the nothingness behind the walls the player sees.
Fuck this concept has been keeping me up at night for years now
[QUOTE=oyotnas;40894706]This guy is high. You have to trust reality everyday, and just hope is doesn't get a little funky.[/QUOTE] For the most part I believe it. I take Vsauces stance on it. The moment I die, everything stops existing. My mind contains everything in the universe, once it's gone there is no account of it. I used this idea in a small debate with someone and they didn't quite get the concept. It's like if you punch someone, then you die, and they try to get revenge. It makes no sense, you as a person no longer exist and the reality of your mind is no longer present. This is probably where some people who suicide by cop are thinking I bet. I terrorize a bunch of people, and the moment they kill me, nothing matters. Nothing exists. Which is probably why they want to get them alive. But in the end, like Michael says, realism is the safest thing to think about because it makes the world a predictable and livable mindset.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;40898489]For the most part I believe it. I take Vsauces stance on it. The moment I die, everything stops existing. My mind contains everything in the universe, once it's gone there is no account of it. I used this idea in a small debate with someone and they didn't quite get the concept. It's like if you punch someone, then you die, and they try to get revenge. It makes no sense, you as a person no longer exist and the reality of your mind is no longer present. This is probably where some people who suicide by cop are thinking I bet. I terrorize a bunch of people, and the moment they kill me, nothing matters. Nothing exists. Which is probably why they want to get them alive. But in the end, like Michael says, realism is the safest thing to think about because it makes the world a predictable and livable mindset.[/QUOTE] We are all cats on a warm, happy keyboard
Define "flipped tongue".
I got a severe jaw cramp doing the tongue thing and missed 30 minutes of work. thanks Vsauce [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=bull04;40895098]Solipsism is an interesting concept. I think about that very thing a LOT when I'm alone. What if everything around me is fake and I'm making it up?[/QUOTE] Deja Vu supports this to an extent, but reality is definitely a more consistent concept. [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] also, if someone "proves" solipsism, does that mean my mind reached a new level of sentience? Do I enter a lucid reality? If scientists discover the meaning of of the universe, and it just points back to my own mind, would reality "snap into balance" and I awaken into a new state? oh god oh no I'm thinking too much [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] maybe we all all the same entity, but "take turns" living each other's lives, over and over again. So one day I'll live Garry's life, ect ect.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;40896629]Is it bad if the most significant thing that stuck with me was the fact that his "we'll never be able to answer every question in the universe" instantly made me think of a comic where humanity solves the last question in the universe, and then one of the guys goes, "so... now what?" I think it's time for me to go to bed. :v:[/QUOTE] I thought the exact same thing. It's like something out of a Douglas Adams book.
[QUOTE=lexus04;40897371]the upside down tongue thing also works with your dick fyi [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] don't ask me how i came to that realization[/QUOTE] Well it was a lot easier than doing it with my tongue at least.
This was quite the video to watch well worth my time! I could use a hug now.
[IMG]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRdlWWcpd8wqujCGz0s5Gl5p9bzKcUT_jVCB0QavJH42k0uC_43[/IMG] A movie about Solipsism.
This video reminded me of one the thoughts I had long ago. I was wondering why we "feel" our thoughts in our head. Like why can't I feel thoughts in the other room or something. I just sat here thinking that and realized its because behind our head is our "origin" because of our senses. I feel my thoughts there because my ears always hear from there, and my eyes always see from there. Which is obvious, our mind doesn't move around the world, the world moves around us. I think I just gave my self a headache. :v: [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] It makes me wonder, if you were to move your eyes apart to somewhere else. Like one on your arm, one on your foot. Where would it seem that your mind is?
300 years worth of a TV channel, and according to my Psychology teacher about 900 years worth of human experience. That's a shit ton of memory.
I see it kind of the same way. The moment I die, the world I live disappears. Other people will still be alive, but not the people I personally knew. They're who I perceived with my senses, but they'll exist in different forms than what I would've known them as. Their perceptions and actions will continue, but my view, my angle and kind of...my world will disappear forever. If that makes any sense. So while I may die, and the world I'm living in will die, I will die knowing that at least on [I]some[/I] level, other things continue existing. I find the idea that everything is imagined by the self kind of egotistic.
I strongly believe in the disconnect between the world perceived and the world actual. But I also strongly believe that however different they may be is irrelevant. I will never know the world actual, but I do know that my actions create re-actions in the world perceived. Therefore, I shall live in the world perceived as if it were the world actual, because I will never get to know the world actual - for all intents and purposes, the world perceived [b]is[/b] the world actual. That's my personal stance on the issue.
I'm actually reading "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley right now, and it's so related to this video. He takes a bunch of mescaline. That's the gist of the book so far. He had a quip in there about how we have a mental filter. There's such an insane amount of stimuli that come out way, that our brain filters it down to a very narrow and practical amount. Just what we need to get by. Psychedelics tend to open that filter a bit and allow you to experience more stimuli. Huxley talked all about how he didn't care for practicality or time while on mescaline. Time didn't exist, space was less important. He looked at a chair, and instead of saying "that's a chair," he looked at it like an aesthete with total disregard for its practical uses. His perception changed. Less practical for survival, sure, but we're long past survival. Solipsism is a depressing topic, and I don't agree that the world ceases to exist if we aren't observing it, because that's a remarkably self-centered and egoistic view, but the entire concept of how the world exists outside of our perception is absolutely fascinating. Think about how the world would look to an alien jellyfish that views infrared light and is able to sense levels of methane in the air as a replacement for touch. The world would seem so different to them. Perception is everything - the world stays the same.
I have this version of reality i live in where the entity that created us, or that we were created within, you could say, comes down to all of our perceptions is the happiest way to experience all the bullshit that just exists all at once. Im sorry if that sounds retarded/half-assed, its hard to convey concepts like these, you can mean one tjing but the words you use will produce a completely dofferent image for someone else.
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