segasonicexe
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- Aug 20, 2024
- 16
It's as simple as the title. i dont think anything exists. I don't know if you could call it an insane delusion or what not but to me it's the truth of the world around me. Allow me to explain myself here.
What do we base our existence off? Sounds and sights? Emotions, sensations like touch, taste and all that? Well all of these have one thing in common. They're not actually there in the real world but rather created by the brain. sounds aren't sound, they're waves. Same with colour, it's simply the different wavelengths of light being interpreted as different "colour." Our perceptions of these waves are completely made up, and in my opinion completely unreliable. There are more waves on the EM spectrum than we can see, more sounds out there too high or low pitch for us to hear, that kind of thing. And on top of that, even illusions play into this.
Even so, at the end of the day someone might tell me that i have my own consciousness. Well lets look at that from a strictly factual stance. After all, facts don't care about my feelings. For one everything about my consciousness is based off of these completely made up senses, the existence of my consciousness is based off falsehood after falsehood. But it goes deeper than that. Every day a person will have to go through making decision after decision. Well what are these decisions based off of? To put it simply, your brain. Every single thing you can, will or ever have thought is already there. And the very pathway you go through in life is completely pre-determined simply by the fact that each and every cell in your brain is already connected and already has only a certain amount of electrical current in it. The circuitry there is already there. There is n cosmic force deciding these things, just you, and at a factual base, you are just a thing. a very complex thing yes but still a thing. Think of it like a video game. I'm not saying that every single jump and press of the d-pad is pre-determined im just saying the programming is already in place, and im sorry to tell you but Mario just can't fly. I came to this website.
Why did i come here? I'll tell you, because a specific current triggered the circuitry required to make my arms do this. I am not alive, nothing is. But im not dead either. No, instead I'm but a thing. And sure you could call this thing complex, but at the end of the day, there are billions of things just like be designed to create more things. From the very inception of reproduction, the existence of more complex things was inevitable simply by the fact that they last longer. And sure, My being has reach a level of complexity that allows it to experience culture and feeling, but at the end of the day, just because something looks like one thing, doesn't truly make it that thing.
and so why should care about living a life that i myself doubt the existence of? Why should i bother if i cannot even acknowlage my own sentience?
What do we base our existence off? Sounds and sights? Emotions, sensations like touch, taste and all that? Well all of these have one thing in common. They're not actually there in the real world but rather created by the brain. sounds aren't sound, they're waves. Same with colour, it's simply the different wavelengths of light being interpreted as different "colour." Our perceptions of these waves are completely made up, and in my opinion completely unreliable. There are more waves on the EM spectrum than we can see, more sounds out there too high or low pitch for us to hear, that kind of thing. And on top of that, even illusions play into this.
Even so, at the end of the day someone might tell me that i have my own consciousness. Well lets look at that from a strictly factual stance. After all, facts don't care about my feelings. For one everything about my consciousness is based off of these completely made up senses, the existence of my consciousness is based off falsehood after falsehood. But it goes deeper than that. Every day a person will have to go through making decision after decision. Well what are these decisions based off of? To put it simply, your brain. Every single thing you can, will or ever have thought is already there. And the very pathway you go through in life is completely pre-determined simply by the fact that each and every cell in your brain is already connected and already has only a certain amount of electrical current in it. The circuitry there is already there. There is n cosmic force deciding these things, just you, and at a factual base, you are just a thing. a very complex thing yes but still a thing. Think of it like a video game. I'm not saying that every single jump and press of the d-pad is pre-determined im just saying the programming is already in place, and im sorry to tell you but Mario just can't fly. I came to this website.
Why did i come here? I'll tell you, because a specific current triggered the circuitry required to make my arms do this. I am not alive, nothing is. But im not dead either. No, instead I'm but a thing. And sure you could call this thing complex, but at the end of the day, there are billions of things just like be designed to create more things. From the very inception of reproduction, the existence of more complex things was inevitable simply by the fact that they last longer. And sure, My being has reach a level of complexity that allows it to experience culture and feeling, but at the end of the day, just because something looks like one thing, doesn't truly make it that thing.
and so why should care about living a life that i myself doubt the existence of? Why should i bother if i cannot even acknowlage my own sentience?
