Say we found out nothing is real, it’s all an illusion. Does it really matter? I wouldn’t care.
If it is an illusion can I get a bigger penis?
It's real in your heart that's all that matters
Real in your heart? Blood is in your heart nothing else.
@jwd45244 wow. A literalist. How original.
@LadyAlyxandrea yeah literalists are the frckin worst like right you didnt know what i was intimating you just decided to try and appear smart
@LadyAlyxandrea I just get tired of the heart metaphor. Sorry that I expressed my opinion.
Well, it can’t ALL be an illusion. There has to be something behind it all creating the illusion. I do feel that the sense of self as a separate individual is an illusion, and that the world of space, time, and matter is a display of mere symbols that we create in our heads.
But we experience conscious awareness and there is something real about that IMO.
Wouldn't matter in the least. Knowing the rules and parameters doesn't make it any less of a game.
This one keeps coming back with a vengeance.... is a kick in the nuts real????
The pain is.
@Mitch07102 I am sure it would be very very real
Everytime I think everything is an illusion I slap myself real hard. You should try it sometime.
Neil d Tyson has a video where the fact we may be s simulation, a game by some alien is discussed. It wouldn't matter to me. I would still-think I was real, still think my universe is real.
One's reality is truly nothing more than their collection of memories. Whether the world we live in is "real" is immaterial. I've been operating on the principle that there's a 50/50 chance that our reality is a simulation (although science and statistics say that if such simulations are possible at all, then your chances of NOT existing in a simulation would be vanishingly slim). This assumption has no impact on how I live my life, other than for intellectual curiosity. I honestly don't even understand those that argue that it would make a difference.
I do think it is an illusion to a degree anyway. Even the sense of free will is an illusion. But, as long as it conforms to our feeling that it is real, ultimately it doesn't matter that much of what we experience is an illusion.
Given that the only thing I can ever truly prove is that I, myself exist, I spend more or less every waking moment acknowledging the possibility that everything else is only reliable to a reasonable certainty based on the evidence provided, but could be an illusion, dreamstate, result of misinterpretation of information, or hallucination.
If it is determined that nothing is real, then you are not real, nor is your mind, nor are your thoughts. Nor is the conclusion that "nothing is real". Nor is the illusion itself.
We can never "find out" – we will never know for certain if anything is real. Hitting oneself proves nothing; that could be part of the illusion, along with everything else we think we perceive.