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Originally Posted by pgrundy
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.
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Eccentricities are what make life bearable; typically the people you interact with on a daily basis are insufferably boring. As for science, if there's one thing that I've learned, it's that NOTHING is absolute. It's been proven that even events already in the past can be changed by the simple act of observation. Everything is subject to change. That can really make you question whether or not anything is real.