How real are you?

Royal Institute of Philosophy ^ | Mary Midgley

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

You, dear reader, may be a cobbled, emergent, semi-illusion, or so the People of Science tell us. But then, they too may be cobbled, emergent, semi-illusions.

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[Brilliant]

When I hear atheists say stuff like this, I think, “So what makes us any better than say a roach? We’re just a collection of atoms joined together by chance, and so is a roach.”

[vladimir998]

Richard Dawkins is an educated idiot.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Are you real? ping.

"The best reason for a revival of philosophy is that unless a man has a philosophy certain horrible things will happen to him... "

G.K. Chesterton

[Pablo64]

Some people have waaaayyyy too much time on their hands.

[Old Sarge]

Imbibo ergo sum.

“I drink, therefore I am.”

Also...

Veni, Vidi, Vino.

“I came, I saw, I drank.”

[proxy_user]

Actually, Dawkins’ problem is that he is not educated in what he professes to discuss. Any first-year philosophy grad student could take his arguments apart.....just as Socrates took care of Thrasymachus in Book I.

[IWONDR]

I think Dawkins is trying to figure out how he came to be where he is.

[rbg81]

Really? When the heart stops pumping blood, oxygen is not longer to deliver to those “cobbled together, disconnected” cells and everything in the body dies. If you want to experience reality, stop paying your bills. Tell me how those “illusitory” effects work out for you.

Just because simple organisms for complex systems, that does not make those complex systems illusions. Educated idiots indeed.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Some people have waaaayyyy too much time on their hands.

Actually I am glad that some people take the time to address (or at least point out) the weird philosophical poisons that professors disseminate for public consumption.

[Lazamataz]

I am so pissed off right now.

[Hot Tabasco]

Are you quite real?

I have debated this very issue many times with my bellybutton and we have never even come close to a decision. I refuse to discuss it any more.....

[Pablo64]

I agree. I was referring to the idiot “philosophers”, not those of us pointing and laughing.

[Salamander]

“To be, or not....” *ping*

[Allegra]

I drink.

Therefore, I am.

[Allegra]

Are you for real?

[onedoug]

Oh, God....

[ClearCase_guy]

Sometimes I think that Dawkins is operating at the level of an apparently smart college freshman -- after encountering marijuana for the first time. "Whoooaaa! What if, like, none of this is reaaalll?"

Really smart people move beyond this type of thought in short order. Dawkins, however, has made a career out of such drivel. Panspermia is a case in point.

[theBuckwheat]

Let us take this question to a level that is more important for humanity: Where is your reality?

Is your “reality” inside your mind, in a world of your own making, where reality is plastic and only pleasant facts are allowed in? A world where truth is what you say it is, where only the rules you like at the moment apply and where only good intentions determine outcomes? A world where the things of the outside world are available to be selected or rejected in making up your present reality.

Or is your “reality” outside of your mind, where you work to keep your understanding of right and wrong in harmony with timeless laws and principles. Where facts do matter and once established, cannot be denied no matter how convenient that would be.

[Graymatter]

Life is but a dream.
Sh-boom!