Monday, July 9, 2007

Solipsism - What if this whole world is not real?

I was fascinated by the concept of solipsism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism) and started reading more about it. Eventually a related thought struck me. How do you really know that things like other people, trees, table etc exist in this world? How do you experience them? Only through your 5 senses - You see that table, You hear I speak, You smell that rose, You taste that Pizza, You touch that hot stove. Imagine for a moment that all these things do not exist and only YOU exist in this world. Is that a possibility? It is if you can also imagine the existence of an invisible force that can take control of all your 5 senses, "create" this world and feed it through the 5 senses! In fact it does not need to create the whole world, just enough things that you experience at any moment. This is very similar to the way you experience virtual worlds when you play virtual reality games. I can hear you say "ooh, ooh, wait a second..." But the questions is, how can we really prove that such an invisible force does not exist?

What do you think?

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