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So I've been thinking about this since I was a little kid (or maybe not lol). What if you/and the whole universe was created 1 second ago with fake memories? Can you prove this didn't happen?
Snap your finger. Now, are you 100% sure you just did that or could you have just been created?
Goddamn I love thoughts like this. I always found Descarte's "I think therefore I am" to be a little silly when trying to prove that we exist, or have existed. Really, I think it is totally possible that we have just been created, or that we do not exist at all. What if your are just the figment of someone Else's imagination? In the end, it doesn't REALLY matter since we do not know, and we can live in blissful ignorance, but really, what a great thought!
So I've been thinking about this since I was a little kid (or maybe not lol). What if you/and the whole universe was created 1 second ago with fake memories? Can you prove this didn't happen?
So I've been thinking about this since I was a little kid (or maybe not lol). What if you/and the whole universe was created 1 second ago with fake memories? Can you prove this didn't happen?
Snap your finger. Now, are you 100% sure you just did that or could you have just been created?
Nope, no one can which is why nobody takes the "prove me wrong" attitudes seriously.
So I've been thinking about this since I was a little kid (or maybe not lol). What if you/and the whole universe was created 1 second ago with fake memories? Can you prove this didn't happen?
That kind of reminds me of the movie The Matrix. Well, I'd have to say that along with the fake memories there would also have to be the instant creation of evidence that those memories are real. For example I have a memory of coming back from the pharmacy at the grocery store about a half an hour ago and getting a flu shot. I just looked at my arm and there's a band aid there just like I remembered. Interesting question though.
By the way, are you from England and did you move to South Carolina? Just curious.
That kind of reminds me of the movie The Matrix. Well, I'd have to say that along with the fake memories there would also have to be the instant creation of evidence that those memories are real. For example I have a memory of coming back from the pharmacy at the grocery store about a half an hour ago and getting a flu shot. I just looked at my arm and there's a band aid there just like I remembered. Interesting question though.
By the way, are you from England and did you move to South Carolina? Just curious.
Good point.
No I'm a college student in South Carolina and I studied abroad in London. I'm originally from Charleston.
This question isn't meant to be taken seriously, just food for thought.
It's still a perfectly valid question. We deny such motions because we have no choice, not because we can find any logical rebuttal to it.
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