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The Mind-Created World - The Philosophy Forum

What I think we can take away from this, is that it makes no sense at all to think about reality without a perspective, the supposed independent reality. The ...

What does reality look like? - Serendip Studio

The only way in which we can know the world is through our personal experience, which is a function of our own, unique brain and nervous system. Other organisms ...

Perceptual Consciousness As Existence - University College London

Despite some light philosophy and a good deal of psychological and therapeutic stuff to the contrary, consciousness in itself it has no hidden depths -- ...

The man rethinking the definition of reality - BBC

How else to think about the revelation that "reality" is nothing like it seems? For the philosopher David Chalmers, however, none of this ...

Thoughts are more real than objects (The Return of Idealism)

Idealism is a much more realist worldview than we think, and more realist than its alternatives, as it does not deny the existence of the most real things ...

Simultaneity of consciousness with physical reality - PubMed Central

The starting point of IIT now called the zeroth axiom, introduced in version 3.0 (Oizumi et al., 2014), is that subjective experience exists for ...

Is it Real or just in my Head? - Applied Jung

1. Is there such a thing as objective reality? Meaning, does a reality exist independently of our perception of it? In philosophy this kind of objectivity is ...

Reality is nothing and everything at once - Bernardo Kastrup

... exist outside mind. My no-thing has an ontological essence (namely, mentality) that exists; it's not an ontic vacuum. This is clear throughout the clip even ...

Do ideas exist outside of the human mind? - Online Philosophy Club

Sure it's a meaningless question, until you make meaning of it. Unless you're a Platonist in the good old-fashioned sense, then concepts exist ...

How would you convince a Solipsist that there is an objective truth? I ...

Ummm... what? All solipsism says is that you can't be sure reality exists outside of your own mind. You can question whether or not you would ...

Does the World Exist Independently of Our Perception? - YouTube

A woman asks about the materialist definition of matter and if the world exists outside our perception of it. This clip has been taken from ...

My Own Personal Nothingness - Nautilus Magazine

It was a different kind of awareness. I am not religious, and I do not believe in the supernatural. I do not think for a minute that my mind ...

Do you exist? - anxiety existence consciousness | Ask MetaFilter

I think this question occurs to most people at some point in their lives. It can pass, or be forgotten, or it can lead to a life-long spiritual ...

REALITY EXISTS IN THE HUMAN MIND NOWHERE ELSE

There is no way to know what reality looks like without being there to see it firsthand, so all we have to go by are our senses and other ...

Do things outside of my consciousness exist? | Blog - Rupert Spira

Ask yourself how it would be possible for a mind to hold more than one perception at a time. Two perceptions would need two minds. In fact, mind ...

Does Life Have Meaning if the Self Does not Exist?

In other words, there is no single conscious experiencer; there is no one watching the movie inside your head. There is just a concatenation of ...

The problem with (some) philosophy and metaphysics of perception

So what modern science tells us is that the human mind creates a virtual simulation of external reality all the time, and that the veridicity of ...

The Concept of Solipsism and Samuel Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said

Solipsism is the theory that the 'self', or one's mind, is all that one can be sure exists or can be known – in other words that nothing exists ...

Subjective Reality Q&A - Steve Pavlina

In a truly subjective universe, there is nothing outside your own consciousness — no world, no bodies, no brain. Suppose I ask you the question, ...

Mind is All Around Us: Consciousness, a Panpsychist's View

Philosophers once thought that while there were plenty of problems about the nature, and even the existence, of physical reality we each knew the existence and ...