Comments on: Five possible theories of reality http://www.michaelnugent.com/2008/06/22/five-possible-theories-of-reality/ Happiness, Atheism and Life Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mathias http://www.michaelnugent.com/2008/06/22/five-possible-theories-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-78992 Mathias Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:59:23 +0000 http://www.michaelnugent.com/?p=855#comment-78992 On 3 or 4 seperate occasions I've found myself in an alternate reality frightingly similar to theory 2. I usually get depressed and feel like the light has been shut off. My friends seem more like distant echoes and the minute i try to explain what I am feeling I realize like your article says: As a working assumption of reality, this scenario renders meaningless any attempts to analyse or choose or do anything. The ‘independent thoughts’ are, in effect, in control. Whatever the illusory ‘me’ or ‘you’ seems to decide, the ‘independent thoughts’ just continue to do whatever they would have been doing anyway. And: It also renders meaningless any attempts to debate or communicate anything, because nobody exists to communicate with. The thinker’s apparent disagreements with ‘other people’ are really internal arguments between the thinker’s own thoughts. I then get frustrated and annoyed that they even bothered asking me why I'm looking so gloom. Thankfully I tend to forget these ideas On 3 or 4 seperate occasions I've found myself in an alternate reality frightingly similar to theory 2. I usually get depressed and feel like the light has been shut off. My friends seem more like distant echoes and the minute i try to explain what I am feeling I realize like your article says:

As a working assumption of reality, this scenario renders meaningless any attempts to analyse or choose or do anything. The ‘independent thoughts’ are, in effect, in control. Whatever the illusory ‘me’ or ‘you’ seems to decide, the ‘independent thoughts’ just continue to do whatever they would have been doing anyway.

And: It also renders meaningless any attempts to debate or communicate anything, because nobody exists to communicate with. The thinker’s apparent disagreements with ‘other people’ are really internal arguments between the thinker’s own thoughts.

I then get frustrated and annoyed that they even bothered asking me why I'm looking so gloom. Thankfully I tend to forget these ideas

]]> By: genesis http://www.michaelnugent.com/2008/06/22/five-possible-theories-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-75207 genesis Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:20:08 +0000 http://www.michaelnugent.com/?p=855#comment-75207 does pain exist? if we were thoughts floating in a dark abyss, do we make up pain and suffering too? death and life? does pain exist? if we were thoughts floating in a dark abyss, do we make up pain and suffering too? death and life?

]]> By: Michael Nugent http://www.michaelnugent.com/2008/06/22/five-possible-theories-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-15319 Michael Nugent Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:59:45 +0000 http://www.michaelnugent.com/?p=855#comment-15319 That is, of course, if your friend exists :-) That is, of course, if your friend exists :-)

]]> By: Jacob http://www.michaelnugent.com/2008/06/22/five-possible-theories-of-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-14769 Jacob Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:27:51 +0000 http://www.michaelnugent.com/?p=855#comment-14769 Me and my firend were taling about somethign like this the other day but he basically said what if everyone is just thoughts floating around in a dark abyss and we are just making "the Universe" up for entertainment, beacuse there is nothing else to do in forever Me and my firend were taling about somethign like this the other day but he basically said what if everyone is just thoughts floating around in a dark abyss and we are just making “the Universe” up for entertainment, beacuse there is nothing else to do in forever

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