Premise 1: Humans have the capacity to dream, and do so regularly. Premise 2: All experiences that occur during wakefulness have the potential to occur in dreams. Premise 3: There is no reliable mechanism by which to distinguish the 2 because of this potential. Conclusion: Therefore, all experiences must be presumed to be occurring during a dream until proven otherwise. Discuss.
Chesterton, G.K. "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything."
Chesterton, G.K. "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything."
I actually believe we're in a simulation. We have no way to determine if reality is in fact reality, independent from an external source, while we have no way to disprove we do, in fact, live in a simulation, so there's no reason to doubt we're in a simulation.
All that I survey, I could easily destroy. From time to time, it is important to remind these small creatures of the true extent of my power.
A rich account of being solves both of these problems.
Chesterton, G.K. "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything."
Refutation: I don't dream. -- (Fernando): Premise 1: Humans have the capacity to dream, and do so regularly. Premise 2: All experiences that occur during wakefulness have the potential to occur in dreams. Premise 3: There is no reliable mechanism by which to distinguish the 2 because of this potential. Conclusion: Therefore, all experiences must be presumed to be occurring during a dream until proven otherwise. Discuss. --
OH, you do, it just doesn't feel like it. I have it too. I must be dreaming while sleeping, but I don't feel like I have experienced something, so I have no memory of things 99 % of the time, and actually, the first thing I do when I awake is look at the clock, because I have no feeling about time after that.
Premice 3 is a conclusion based on the first two premices, it's only a premice in so far as it supports your second conclusion, which you haven't properly justified. Why should we assume that all our experiences are dreams, instead of on the contrary assuming they are all experienced in a wakeful state, or just leaving it indetermined and doing away with assumptions all together?
Because it's been established that dreams are experienced regularly, that all experiences have the potential to occur in dreams, and that there exists no reliable means to distinguish the 2. Which makes the dream state the necessary presumption because dreaming is the phenomenon known to occur and wakefulness is not. -- (Ferrumite666): Premice 3 is a conclusion based on the first two premices, it's only a premice in so far as it supports your second conclusion, which you haven't properly justified. Why should we assume that all our experiences are dreams, instead of on the contrary assuming they are all experienced in a wakeful state, or just leaving it indetermined and doing away with assumptions all together? --
Chesterton, G.K. "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything."
That's the career I'm studying for. -- (djsenter): None of y'all are lawyers, ok? Chill --
Chesterton, G.K. "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything."
