Blackstream
Registered Member
I exist because I can reflect upon my thoughts and I am self-aware. If I don't exist I can't be reflecting upon my existance, therefore I know I have to exist.
A table is mearly a label we apply to a generalized description for convience. It would be difficult to state after all, "Please go and sit over by the mass of approximately 2 million atoms that are binded losely together (spend the next 2 hours describing how the atoms create an appears of legs)". Therefore a table is in our minds, though the actual objects that holds up my dinner are real. The atoms, also, all bind together to make one mass. So in a sense the object does exist, but it's the combination of many parts in one whole, which pretty much every thing, living or not, is. I'm me, which is composed of cells, which is composed of atoms, which is composed of subatomic particles, ect. I myself consist of many different living organisms. My neighborhood is also a living organism of which I am part of. And we can extend that all the way to the universe, and probably beyond, and say the universe is one living organism. So while a table is a description, there is definately a mass there, so it does exist. True that we can't directly percieve it, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. Just merely being composed of smaller parts doesn't make it less real, neither does an inability to directly percieve something make it not real. Reality doesn't change based on ones ability to percieve.
Same for time. Just because it doesn't matter to the universe doesn't mean it's not there. It may be meaningless to the universe, which has been going and will go for an infinite amount of time, but just because somethings meaningless doesn't make it go away. It's like a 2d cartoon saying the 3rd dimention doesn't exist because it doesn't matter to the paper in which they live in.
At any rate, all I have to go off of are my perceptions right now. That and my awareness. I remember my past, although I can't prove at any given instant that those memories are real and that I wasn't just now created. I am experiencing the present. And the future unravels before me. All of this is happening in a linear fashion. If time did not exist, then why do I have a past, present and future? If I was a 4th dimension being, I might be able to go backward and forwards in time at will, but it would still be there.
I would further argue that if we exist at a point in time, and that all other instants are "accessible" so to speak, what we are really doing is using a sense that allows us to view the 4th dimension, which allows us to see other instants.
So, what am I saying? Reality doesn't change because you can't percive it or because something has no point. Also I wanted to throw forward the idea that maybe the reason why some people (supposedly) can view the past and future is not because it all exists at once, but because they are using a sense that allows them to look "up" and "down" the 4th dimension.
A table is mearly a label we apply to a generalized description for convience. It would be difficult to state after all, "Please go and sit over by the mass of approximately 2 million atoms that are binded losely together (spend the next 2 hours describing how the atoms create an appears of legs)". Therefore a table is in our minds, though the actual objects that holds up my dinner are real. The atoms, also, all bind together to make one mass. So in a sense the object does exist, but it's the combination of many parts in one whole, which pretty much every thing, living or not, is. I'm me, which is composed of cells, which is composed of atoms, which is composed of subatomic particles, ect. I myself consist of many different living organisms. My neighborhood is also a living organism of which I am part of. And we can extend that all the way to the universe, and probably beyond, and say the universe is one living organism. So while a table is a description, there is definately a mass there, so it does exist. True that we can't directly percieve it, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. Just merely being composed of smaller parts doesn't make it less real, neither does an inability to directly percieve something make it not real. Reality doesn't change based on ones ability to percieve.
Same for time. Just because it doesn't matter to the universe doesn't mean it's not there. It may be meaningless to the universe, which has been going and will go for an infinite amount of time, but just because somethings meaningless doesn't make it go away. It's like a 2d cartoon saying the 3rd dimention doesn't exist because it doesn't matter to the paper in which they live in.
At any rate, all I have to go off of are my perceptions right now. That and my awareness. I remember my past, although I can't prove at any given instant that those memories are real and that I wasn't just now created. I am experiencing the present. And the future unravels before me. All of this is happening in a linear fashion. If time did not exist, then why do I have a past, present and future? If I was a 4th dimension being, I might be able to go backward and forwards in time at will, but it would still be there.
I would further argue that if we exist at a point in time, and that all other instants are "accessible" so to speak, what we are really doing is using a sense that allows us to view the 4th dimension, which allows us to see other instants.
So, what am I saying? Reality doesn't change because you can't percive it or because something has no point. Also I wanted to throw forward the idea that maybe the reason why some people (supposedly) can view the past and future is not because it all exists at once, but because they are using a sense that allows them to look "up" and "down" the 4th dimension.