Thu 20 May, 2010 07:32 pm - i agree with much, not all, of what you say though your views and examples are highly materialistic. It is what society has made it become though and it is what society will understand. (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 07:33 pm - [QUOTE=Twirlip;164776]And even I'm still not close.
In general terms, the only way I can think of to convince you of my existence would to point out to you some feature of the real world... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 05:49 pm - [QUOTE=Ergo;164756]SSN: 078-05-1120[/QUOTE]
as of right now, you are totally nonexistent to me. It's not an offense, it is simply my view of life.
an SSN is compeltely independent to your... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 05:29 pm - [QUOTE=prothero;164689]I think therefore, I am. You I am not so sure about?[/QUOTE]
it's true. To think is to exist but your idea of thinking and my idea of thinking might not be the same.... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 01:58 pm - [QUOTE=Twirlip;164670]I still can't solve your riddle, but I'm still trying to grasp it.
My impression of what you mean is this:
You find yourself apparently existing, in an... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 11:28 am - [QUOTE=Twirlip;164632]Re-reading this, it seems apparent now that your question has the form of a riddle, in that, rather than it being an open-ended enquiry (as I had been supposing), you actually... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 10:56 am - [QUOTE=Twirlip;164625]You were able to discern that I wasn't being entirely serious, even though I tried not to be too obvious about that. That seems to show a finely tuned sense of reality,... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 10:43 am - [QUOTE=Twirlip;164618]The fact that you laughed at my post helps to prove your rationality to me, that's all. Of course it doesn't help with proving my existence to you.[/QUOTE]
Where... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 10:27 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;164609]Yes, and I was pointing out that whether or not I could prove [I]to you[/I] (or persuade you) that I exist has nothing much to do with the more important question of... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 10:00 am - [QUOTE=Twirlip;164515]I hadn't realised that your question was such a serious one. I apologise for the partial levity of my first reply; I imagined that you were only asking a theoretical... (view)
