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fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 6 months agoIt’s unknowable, but I think it’s rational to conclude that there is something. We can’t directly experience it, but we can experience something which means there’s something out there.
I don’t buy the “we live in the matrix” or “deceitful god” arguments.
exocrinous@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Ah, so your argument is there cannot be an effect without a cause. We have perceptions, so they must have causes, and you believe those causes must be a real world.
However, this is a bit of a strange thing to think. Because if there exists a world, then there exists a big bang, and we are right back at the problem of effects without causes. The argument against effects without causes does not favour realism any more than soulism.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I agree with the first paragraph, but not the second. Why should there be a big bang? That’s based on the assumption that you can trust your perceptions, which I’m essentially rejecting.
In other words, is there something giving me perceptions? I think so. Why is it there? Who knows. Why is there anything? Same answer.
exocrinous@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Okay, but that doesn’t solve the causeless effect problem. The world is as much a causeless effect as perceptions without a world. So your proposed resolution to the problem is “there’s probably a world out there I’ll never know and I don’t have to reckon with its causeless effects, I just have to push the causeless effect out of my direct knowledge”?
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No, I can’t solve that problem, but I don’t think that means there’s no objective reality out there. The alternatives are more ridiculous.