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What are some arguments that point to the world not being a mental projection?
Or if you could point me somwhere where I could find them, I'd be grateful.
@Plogsties: If the world is a mental projection, and it can maintain that level of complexity, there's no reason to think it can't create sensations of pain and bruises.
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- ?Lv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
"What are some arguments that point to the world not being a mental projection?"
valid arguments?
there's none.
- ?Lv 77 years ago
Try arguing that the pain you feel when you walk into a tree - and the bruises obtained thereby - is a "mental projection". Anyone who insists that this could be a "mental projection" has abandoned rational thinking.
That said, your interpretation of what other people are thinking or what they see is a projection of your won perceptual biases - but this is fundamentally different from the above example unless you deny the existence of reality, as is commonly done by those that insist that ALL is simply appearance and not reality. I don't think one can rationally debate with anyone who assumes this position. If there is no reality then there can be no "knowledge" (there can only be misperceptions) and ALL questions become pointless and meaningless.
- 7 years ago
Look at the SKY, it's blue and beautiful. However the reality that behind the sky is completely dark. That eternal darkness and emptiness is the place where not being a mental projection.