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Sean wrote:You guys ever see one thing, like one tiny insignificant thing that makes you question everything? Like I just saw the word 'productivity'. I mean productivity, thats nothing it means nothing in relation to me, yet it just knocked me for six and made me question my life so far.

Talk about your exestensial crisis

Cam wrote:In biology, we had to give caffeine to these little water fleas and measure it's heart rate. One of ours died cos it's heart gave out, and I felt bad.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Sean wrote:You guys ever see one thing, like one tiny insignificant thing that makes you question everything? Like I just saw the word 'productivity'. I mean productivity, thats nothing it means nothing in relation to me, yet it just knocked me for six and made me question my life so far.

Talk about your exestensial crisis

My existential crisis came at the age of 6 when I realised I had some thoughts about solipsism, and the fact I had no way of knowing that other people actually had independent minds and weren't just autonomous robots.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Sean wrote:You guys ever see one thing, like one tiny insignificant thing that makes you question everything? Like I just saw the word 'productivity'. I mean productivity, thats nothing it means nothing in relation to me, yet it just knocked me for six and made me question my life so far.

Talk about your exestensial crisis

My existential crisis came at the age of 6 when I realised I had some thoughts about solipsism, and the fact I had no way of knowing that other people actually had independent minds and weren't just autonomous robots.

Cam wrote:In biology, we had to give caffeine to these little water fleas and measure it's heart rate. One of ours died cos it's heart gave out, and I felt bad.

Sean wrote:Yea I saw that RR, buying back the freehold for the land. Surely they must have a pretty good chance of finding a good spot build, if they're making this move

ResurrectionRooney wrote:It's not like the Truman show, it's more Descartes' evil demon (or The Matrix if you are an uncultured heathen).

BladeGunner14 wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:It's not like the Truman show, it's more Descartes' evil demon (or The Matrix if you are an uncultured heathen).

I'm not familiar with Descartes' Evil Demon but I'm assuming it's similar to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In any case, I often empathize with the protagonists of Allegory of the Cave.

Sean wrote:I'm confused with Descartes Evil Demon, does he actually mean a malevolent creature or does it represent something internal in us?

Sean wrote:Wow we actually learnt about the ontological argument in RE recently I agree it's crap, even though I believe in God. Many cultures conceived of a higher being in many different forms, they can't all be correct.

It is kind of linked to Plato though,(well maybe more Socrates) the idea that everything we see is an illusion or a poor copy of the real world.

BladeGunner14 wrote:Why is Plato a power hungry, schizophrenic maniac?

Sean wrote:Wow we actually learnt about the ontological argument in RE recently I agree it's crap, even though I believe in God. Many cultures conceived of a higher being in many different forms, they can't all be correct.

It is kind of linked to Plato though,(well maybe more Socrates) the idea that everything we see is an illusion or a poor copy of the real world.

BladeGunner14 wrote:

Sean wrote:Wow we actually learnt about the ontological argument in RE recently I agree it's crap, even though I believe in God. Many cultures conceived of a higher being in many different forms, they can't all be correct.

It is kind of linked to Plato though,(well maybe more Socrates) the idea that everything we see is an illusion or a poor copy of the real world.

That is the central thesis of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which I happen to hold in high regard. Curious to see why ResurrectionRooney thinks he's such a terrible person though.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

BladeGunner14 wrote:

That is the central thesis of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, which I happen to hold in high regard. Curious to see why ResurrectionRooney thinks he's such a terrible person though.

Have you actually read anything he wrote in context? The allegory of the cave is just him bitching about how him and his teacher are so much more intelligent than everyone else, and how they get vilified and hated for it. I actually sympathise with him in that respect.

When we hear the words "that than which a greater cannot be thought", we understand what the words convey, and what we understand exists in our thoughts. This then exists either only in our thoughts or both in thought and reality. But it cannot exist only in our thoughts, because if it existed only in our thoughts, then we could think of something greater than it, since we could think of something than which a greater cannot be thought that exists both in thought and in reality, and it is a contradiction to suppose we could think of something greater than that which nothing greater can be thought. Hence, that than which a greater cannot be thought exists both in thought and in reality. Therefore, that than which a greater cannot be thought really does exist,

Sean wrote:

When we hear the words "that than which a greater cannot be thought", we understand what the words convey, and what we understand exists in our thoughts. This then exists either only in our thoughts or both in thought and reality. But it cannot exist only in our thoughts, because if it existed only in our thoughts, then we could think of something greater than it, since we could think of something than which a greater cannot be thought that exists both in thought and in reality, and it is a contradiction to suppose we could think of something greater than that which nothing greater can be thought. Hence, that than which a greater cannot be thought exists both in thought and in reality. Therefore, that than which a greater cannot be thought really does exist,

Lol wut?