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Asker asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

A. is the world around me real?

Update:

or say Bob and Jane are the same persons , part of a morph, posing different ones and trying to (1) deceive or (2) entertain me? [the same applies to other objects]

B. Do they feel pain and pleasure the same way I do or they just act as if they are feeling and they are feelingless

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago
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    I have to assume that you exist, but in truth I only know that I (in some form) exist. Everything outside of our own existence is only assumption. Our perceptions could be lies, and essentially endless possibilities exist as to what the world is, to what we in truth are. That being said this reality feel quite real, and without any evidence to oppose it I must except it (in life if not in thought). So you are likely real and likely share the same thoughts and perceptions, to some degree, as whatever individual you deem a decent test.

  • 7 years ago

    Since I don't know you, YOUR world cannot be real.

    As for knowing if people feel pain the same, you can ask the same question about colors. You both look at green. You both say its green. But you might be seeing two totally different colors -- but that SAME color has always been green to both of you.

  • 7 years ago

    It's real enough. If you believe in "morphs", however, then i suggest you pay a visit to the psychology or mental health forum.

  • 7 years ago

    It's illusory and temporary

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Yes.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    if you look in the mirror , is that the real picture? It is a reflection of it

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No you are just one of my hallucinations.

    Not that that makes it any easier i know.

  • 7 years ago

    "Reality" is defined by our perceptions. "Actuality" is defined by objective criteria. ... Therefore everyone has their own sense of "reality", while "actually" they live in the same world.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    as 'real' as their own awareness of themselves.

  • Aaron
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Its that REAL as REAL you are to the world.

    Source(s): Sixth Sense
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