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Old Jun 26, 2011, 12:07 PM
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Hypnagogic hallucinations interest me mostly due to the fact that I know they're not real, and yet my body feels compelled to believe otherwise.
Right. If you follow that interest to its logical conclusion you either have to decide that you can't know for sure if anything is 'real', or that your faith in science, materialism, and reductionism is misplaced or overstated. Those are the choices.

But no need to beat a dead horse here. Philosophy really IS boring and people are interested in SP for all kinds of reasons.

My reasons have to do with the contents of the experience itself bleeding into 'real' life and the impact of that sort of thing on philosophies about how we 'know' what we think we know. That's pretty esoteric and dry I guess but that's my interest.