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**invasuant** · 01-27-2006, 07:00 AM

well here is a little classical descrates.

Of course the universe exists. I mean even if our senses are being decieved by a malcious demon or the matrix, our brian is still interpeting those false perceptios. So our brian exists somewhere and that would the universe. So I can\'t be 100% sure that my body exists, but I can be 100% sure that my mind exists. YO COGITO ERGO SUM -- I THINK THEREFORE I AM.

But the question is this -- Does what WE (or at least I) percieve as reailty actually reailty???????????

I think a very good answer is this -- ASSUME that we are being sysemtically decieve by a machine, demon, or god himself well our perceptions are being controlled by this entity -- this is dervived from the assumption. Well we are being feed this idea that our reailty could be false. So why would this being go through all the trouble to decieve us, and then plant this little seed of doubt about our reailty? this assumption is ultimely self defeating.

01-27-2006, 07:00 AM	#3
invasuant Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 642 Senior Member	well here is a little classical descrates. Of course the universe exists. I mean even if our senses are being decieved by a malcious demon or the matrix, our brian is still interpeting those false perceptios. So our brian exists somewhere and that would the universe. So I can\'t be 100% sure that my body exists, but I can be 100% sure that my mind exists. YO COGITO ERGO SUM -- I THINK THEREFORE I AM. But the question is this -- Does what WE (or at least I) percieve as reailty actually reailty??????????? I think a very good answer is this -- ASSUME that we are being sysemtically decieve by a machine, demon, or god himself well our perceptions are being controlled by this entity -- this is dervived from the assumption. Well we are being feed this idea that our reailty could be false. So why would this being go through all the trouble to decieve us, and then plant this little seed of doubt about our reailty? this assumption is ultimely self defeating.
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