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Presumably this guy had the laughing academy convened to defend his dissertation.......and I’ll bet they all sat there with straight faces :)
This thread has the makings of a great food fight!
Is this one of those guys who says that “perception” is all there is to reality? I mean, is he one who says that we call a square a square because we all agree it is a square? That a square is only a square because we “perceive” it that way?
Because, if he is, he has fallen for the foolishness of philosophy. Because, no matter how hard we try to decide that a square is now a circle, it does not lose its pointy corners. Our perception will NOT change a square to a circle just because we decide to call it something else!
Most philosophers fall for the Human as God fallacy by assuming that perception is reality. That anything we decide it to be, will be.
But, I got news for them. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to see it... it STILL FALLS.
So....What does this have to do with Britney Spears??
Interesting read, reminds me of Robert Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.
I think, therefor I am.
Self-consciousness is an illusion.
Shouldn't be saying THE metaphysical, but A metaphysical.