“Hi my name is Soren
and I am here today to talk to you about reality.
But before I get on to that I’m going to state my goal in this presentation.
My goal is to even at the slightest get you to doubt something, that you knew once to be true.
Your goal in this presentation is to counter my goal, to think of every possible flaw in my theories and not to become lost in thought in the process.
Alright so look at this penny (hold penny)
What would you expect to happen if I let go of it, right this moment? It would fall right???
Your prediction of the fall of the penny is based on experience as every time you throw a ball you expect it to fall. So what if I said that the penny would fall upwards? What if every time you threw a ball, it just kept moving upwards, based on the experience, you would predict that the ball would always move upwards. So when you see the penny drop, it is only in the absence of not seeing the penny drop that you make your assumption.
(Meaning you’ve never seen a penny fly away when you let go of it so therefore it is only pure probability)
Therefore you could say that experience is the key to conciousness thought.
Okay so we are getting somewhere, experience is related to time and time is related to everything else as everything is in constant motion. This concept is from the book Sophie’s world which talks about a range of philosophers teachings such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Socrateeeeessss. <— Pronunciation
This is all relative to my theme study as how do you define reality?
A common way to define reality is to think about what you can see, touch, smell or hear. Your senses are the only things that allow you to perceive your environment. What if they all disappeared?
Would you be able to tell the time? and therefore gain experience. There is nothing to gain experience from. So how do you still define reality.
What if I trapped you in a world exactly like this one without you knowing, how would know that you were ever gone?
React!