This is a response to the post by Julia Les about the absurdity of truth and lies. What other ways of thinking can lead to a conclusion that everything we perceive is false? The answer: There are many ways. We can take the class-discussed "matrix route" and say that we are all brains floating in jars somewhere and that "there is no tree", we just think that there is. We could also be stuck in a permanent dream world, a hallucination, and not realize it. Perhaps everything we see is a hologram. What if we do not even have free will, and everything we go through is pre-recorded? This may explain deja-vu, if we assume that at some point in time, we heard the recording or watched the movie of our lives. Free will is funny that way. If we didn't have it, we wouldn't notice. We would think what we were doing was on our own when in fact it was all carefully planned.
So maybe it is all a big illusion. Though there really isn't a way of figuring out whether it is or not.
Now that I've somewhat touched on the idea of worlds outside of our own, here is my question: Realism or idealism?
-Megan
"There is no normal life, Wyatt, there's just life." -Tombstone
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