what if reality is not here? (there's no wrong answer!)?
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Then I'm not really eating this pound cake, which means I paid $5.99 for it. !@#$% rip off!
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I guess there isn't any way to know for sure that we know everything is there?\n\nYou could take the perspective of some people and "just have faith".   No need to use reason or logic, no need to ask, no need to doubt.....JUST HAVE FAITH!
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Philosophers have wrangled with this question for centuries and I comes down to this:  You simply cannot prove that you exist.  You can't even prove that the outside world exists.  After all, 'you' could just be a brain in a vat somewhere being stimulated by electrodes that make you 'see', 'feel', and 'touch'.  What philosophers have come up with is the concept of a "Properly Basic Belief".  It means that if there is no evidence whatsoever to the contrary, then you can probably safely assume that it's true.  However, that doesn't mean you can prove it.  And of course you have to be open to the possibility that evidence may turn up at some time.  So until there is evidence that I don't exist, I'll stick with the philosophers and say it's a "Properly Basic Belief" that I exist.  And of course, there's the old standby of "I think, therefore I am."
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I don't think it is possible, and if so the experiment itself would probably detroy the fabric of our reality to the point that people's answers would disappear, and reappear as different answers. The time machine does make for some fine fiction, though.
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Firstly, in honour of the late C E M Joad, it may depend on what exactly you mean by the various terms you use.\nThat's not a trivial opening for miscommunication.\n\nIs an ethereal plane a given, capable of definition, or is that a hypothetical construct too?\n\nTaking reality and non-reality in a popular sense, the nature of reality will be a question for anyone delving into philosophy and the mind.  Simple visual illusions are all that are required to distinguish between "perception" and "reality".\nThere is discussion that self-awareness may only be an illusion of identity (following Libets' and others' experiments on brain potential and subjective experience) \n\nAnd a url is given for the discussion that an individual's subjective existence is more likely to be a computer simulation than "real life", which may be closer to what you had in mind.
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if its not true, than ask yourself, where does it go?
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I agree. Every single emotion; every single scenario imaginable; both sides of the extreme and what lies in between will occur in this universe. In my opinion, anything is possible in this universe…ANYTHING! And I don’t think this universe has meaning without human ‘observation / awareness’ (consult ‘the observer effect’ in quantum physics + my question about the sound of tree falling in the forest).
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Definitely: Yes.\nBecause that is the same question as to ask: Is there anything like "a nothing"? And there certainly is, otherwise we won't have the term "nothing", would we?
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How is it rational to say with certainty that something does exist when the possibility will always remain that it does not?\n\nNOT believing is what atheism means.
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the way i see it, anything you feel is just as real as anything else. i'm just not sure if everything is either real, or artificial. but, assuming that ANYTHING is "real", then even a person hallucinating something that noone else sees is having a "real" feeling. anyone who believes "i think, therefore i am" should agree with me.
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It's true!\nThat's right, it's true that this question is actually false! Since you asked if it was false, the answer would be true!!\nGot it?! ;0)
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Anything is possible. But I haven't seen it for myself yet on this matter. There's a lot of stuff out there that we have no proof of yet we still believe it to be true. For example, God...we haven't seen God or the Holy Spirits but we have faith that its True or vice versa. So , I guess it is up to you. There's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, why cut our dreams short and say it's not possible. BE Optimistic---anything is possible....even time traveling.
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Falsehood has existence. It does exist so long as it is unfolded and the Truth emerges out of it. It is Francis Bacon who said that Truth emerges more from errors than from confusion.
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If it's not real, it's not a fact. You can't find an unreal fact, because a fact is something that is real and true..... You could make something up and call it a fact, but it wouldn't be.
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Very philosophical.  Everything is already in our head and is relative to the beholder.  The same can be said for life and all that applies.\n\nThere are three positions on what reality is:\n1.  Reality is Hidden\n2.  Reality is Attainable\n3.  No one agrees as to what reality is\n\nSee the source below for full details.
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Question of when, not if.
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It is impossible to know that, given the information we currently have at our disposal. But I'm sure you'll get all kinds of answers from people who think they know. Just know that your guess is as good as anyone else's.\n\nPersonally, I'm leaning toward the notion that nothing happens, and we simply cease to be. But again, impossible to know.