Does the world only exist as I perceive it?

[Anonymous]

Yes the world only exists as I perceive it!

Nope!

[PonyCar]

This is the same question as "If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, does it make sound?" Yes. That's the way physics works. Laws of the universe don't change just because you're not standing in a particular location.

If I get blinded in an accident, does everything I'm not physically touching just disappear? No, of course things don't just atomize just because I can no longer sense them.

Questions like those are always oddly human-centric/self-centered.

[sean1234]

😄mm hmm

[FreyaRed]

For you personally, it does. For others it doesn't

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

It can only be verified to you to exist as you perceive it. After all, I could just be a figment of your imagination: some lines of code in your virtual Matrix. Living like a hard solipsist seems terrible though; it helps to at least act like a world exists beyond your perception if only to live a life that fills you with greater meaning and wonder.

[jshm2]

You're not that special, kiddo!

Joking aside, We each perceive our own reality, and it's why social cohesion and social interaction is important to ensure it meshes with good people.

Too many bad people meshing makes for a bad reality for everyone else.

[strateguy632]

no because human percepton is limited.
i heard a philosophical question when to peoople see a "red light" and "know to stop" are they both seeing the same color in their mind? or maybe see different colors that each call that one name red? because that is the name they always heard for that color.
they call that philosophy to personalize experience and "doubt the obvious".

on the other hand if we know about light wavelength we can be sure all healthy people see it the same therefore the same for all other perceptions [healthy except color blind for red and green but same concept for blue]

[sean1234]

OHHH! I think I understand where you are coming from, from reading others.

There would be rioting, panic and who knows what if people could see the demons/fallen angels controlling other people and themselves.

[wHolLyGoTgodgods]

Wake up wake up here on Earth now , all passengers exit in the back someone else cleans it up.

[AngryCarl]

Not at all. If I kill you the world will still continue without you. Of course I'd be in trouble.

[Anonymous]

No. That's the retarded thinking of a 2 year old and even the 2 year old figures out pretty quickly how retarded it is.

[supercutebutt]

Yes, I think so. And by 'I' I mean me. :)

[guy_123]

But there is stuff that exists and we don't see it. If you were a dog you wouldn't sense the same that you do now, and all those smells or whatever... do exist, just beyond our perception. We also need more than 3 dimensions to understand the universe, yet we can only sense and imagine things inside those 3 dimensions. That's a lot we are missing on.

[supercutebutt]

@guy_123 If there are 10 or 11 dimensions, then we are missing a lot.