Lots of people have been to Canada, and can confirm Canada exists. Lots of people know Canadians, and can infer Canada exists. But no one has ever been to Ottawa, and we can, therefore, write off Ottawa as ever of existed.
Knowing that Canadians Lie, and Canada seeks war against the US, it is therefore logical to assume that the Canadians are lying about Ottawa, as a masterstroke of misdirection away from their real capital, Toronto, in case there is ever a war. They know our spies will never bother to drive that far north to confirm. Its just a couple if lakes and beavers in desolation, perfect to trick us to drop nukes on or commit tank divisions into attacking.
Occam’s Razor: Canada is the sum of all evil, as Ottawa doesn’t exist.
Berkeley, Solipsism, and two dudes standing on a corner.
Neither of them exist unless the other observes them, according to Browser. So, if Billy drops dead, Bob suddenly disappears into thin air? Ah, he continues to exist because God is observing him. To be Bob is to be percieved; Bob esse est percipi.
Then many things popped into existence when they were perceived. They had no history before that. They did not exist and then they did. For example, if we are the only technological life form, then whole galaxies sprung into existence when we invented the telescope.
And before there was life on earth, there was no earth.
(or there is some kind of panpsychism or God or something that perceives, though I wonder how this is proved)
In a sense one could say that perceiving is not only creative, but the only creative act. It brings things into existence. But this is odd, since generally we think of perceiving things that already exist. As in we notice them. But we do not notice things, at least not the first time they are perceived, we create them. Or life forms create them. How did the first life form come into existence?
you cannot perceive something without the derivative information concerning that thing.
conclusion; perception is simply our tool to read the world, we can and do use other instruments. the information in the world exists regardless of our perception of it.
Even an insect supposedly has input senses and perceives things. Cognitive thought seems irrelevant.
By “perceived,” I mean “perceived by at least me.” That is as much as I myself am certain. I don’t think any of you exist, since I’m not perceiving any of you. As much as I’m certain, the input I’m receiving on this thread is from a computer, and not necessarily from any or all of you as people conventionally believed to exist.
If you jump into the area of a hungry lion in a zoo, will closing your eyes make him disappear as he leaps on you, tears your skull open, and eats your brain?
If so, this is a trick I would gladly see you try to perform in public!
In case you’re worried about your other senses magically bringing the lion into existence, we can drug you and numb all of them so you feel nothing… surely, because you feel nothing, there will be no lion… he will just disappear.
Contact me so we can set this up, you’ll be very famous if you can really do this! And you’ll be fairly famous even if you can’t…
So you believe that before there was life on earth, there was no earth?
and no sun?
This would mean that in the moment of the first perception, whatever it was a perception of, the perceiver was created and whatever the perceiver perceived.
In fact before the first life form, there was no universe. So there is no evolution to get to the first life form, there is no process in the creation of a perceiver.