What if I'm asleep in a hospital somewhere and I could die any moment they decide to pull the plug?!?! ohnoes

Jesus why has my mind been giving me existential crisises at night this week? kitty-cri

  • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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    2 days ago

    The human brain doesn't have the capabilities of synthesizing the richness of life de novo. Dreams and hallucinations are transitory and ephemeral things. Longitudinal consistency makes the idea of such a long-term hallucination absurdly implausible.

    • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]
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      2 days ago

      Longitudinal consistency makes the idea of such a long-term hallucination absurdly implausible.

      Incidentally, this is why liberalism exists. /s

      • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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        2 days ago

        We can only really think in terms of likelihoods. Why would a non-human super-organism, who had the mental capacity to simulate the external universe with such consistency and fidelity, dream up such a human life?

        It's all a fun reasoning puzzle of course. We don't really fear that we're dreaming, we fear that we're awake and that this is what life is.