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Marty_Pellow | 15:51 Sat 18th Dec 2004 | Body & Soul
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My Question is Simple?

Do We Exist? Are We Real?

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hello!

Um... in answer to your queston it depends on what you mean. I think if you are happy and live  every moment to the full, and truly get the most out of our experiences then does it really matter!?

But, if you want a more intellectual look in to it, then greek philosophers are the guys to ask! e.g. Decartes said " I think, Therefore I Am" he said if he doubted the existance of everything, and everything he knew, what was left....nothing...but something HAD to be doing the doubting and so therefore YES we fo exist!

hope that helps and is not too boring! i just learnt that in my philosophy classes and thought i would share it with you!

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Fine, except that Rene Descartes, born 1596 was French... who also said "Everything is self-evident"...
No, we are all just figments of Andy Hughes' imagination.
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Are We Not Men?

We Are Devo.

If we're not real, can I wipe that smug-permanent-grin off your face with my fist, Marty Pellow?

Ever since your grinning self-satisfied, extremely wet,wet,wet  cover of "With a little help from my friends" I've wanted to do it - but then, it may not be real. Thank god.

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And what's this to do with Film & TV?

We are the computer that will find the answer to what the question was, and we are controlled by superminds in the form of labrats

We are just parts of a computer that will find the answer toi what the question was, and all is controlled by superminds in form of lab-rats
Did anyone else get a Deja V�, I did they are changing the system

Yeah Bee - do not question the Lab Rats.

 

All praise the Lab Rats, for they are our Leaders.

I am real. You, my little friend, are not.
My (slightly mad) friend thinks there are only 20 real people in the world and the rest are mixes of clones. 
We buy therefor we exist
I wonder if I exist sometimes, especially when no one answer my flipping questions...
Since reality is demonstrably hard, the most reasonable interpretation of its nature is objective realism. Illusionism remains theoretically possible, but only in this form: the world is a perfect simulation of objective reality.

People often argue for illusionism on the grounds that it cannot be disproved. The deadly flaw in such arguments now becomes apparent. When stripped of obfuscation, their core is this: illusionism is possible, therefore reality is, or at least might be, subjective or chaotic. But this ignores the fact that the only illusionism which is possible is hard illusionism , which so closely mimics objective reality as to be indistinguishable from it.

We have now arrived at a basic axiom of the nature of the world: reality is hard. And the most natural explanation of this is that it is real, and objective.

The theoretical possibility that reality is an illusion remains, but if so it is so hard that it may as well be real. Furthermore, a hard illusion requires a hidden reality behind it, of at least the same fundamental complexity as the apparent reality it simulates. Clearly, in the absence of any evidence or any way to test it, such an hypothesis serves no function at all. My question to those who propose such fancies as "we are mere bugs in a cosmic computer program" is this: why should I believe that? The answer: none.

Now thats that dealt with, BigDogsWang - what is your question?
I exist.  You do not exist.
I'm pink, therefore I'm spam
I Drink, Therefore I Am.  Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder
If the statement 'I think therefore I am' is true then yes, but I prefer to say 'I sometimes think, therefore I maybe'

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