How do you really know that you aren't just a brain hookt up to electrodes floating in an Evil scientists  jar
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did you watch the matrix stoned again.
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You just have the Sixth Sense.
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You need to do some self evaluating and figure out what's going on deep inside of you.
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The brain is convoluted. As are we all?
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I can kinda do that, except it doesn't go away. I just think to myself "It's only a feeling, some electricity from my nerve endings telling me what I'm touching. It cannot hurt me." It's like Mind over Matter.
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Do you know what it took to even ask the question? You have a physical machine called a body that is able to use its mind to ponder the question, relay visual information from a physical world of comparable low-tech computers through the optic nerve, into the brain, with the mind to comprehend the ramifications, then transfer that thought process to an incredibly complex systems of nerves, tendons, and touch to the fingers to type the letters. This then communicates a question of the soul. The soul is something that science cannot a.) explain and b.) create. It can only mimic with unsatisfactory results. That soul is concerned for the existence of an eternal destiny beyond time and space--that there is a world beyond the physical world we see in the here and now. The free-will to choose to believe or not believe. A being that can love, write poetry, paint or play works of incredible complexity and beauty. To smell, and taste, enjoy. So, like you, I set out on a path to find my Creator. It is obvious that He exists, but is He personal or an impersonal force? My answer came through the study of prophecy in the Bible. Like the DNA strand and life itself, it was hard to dispute the evidence. Now with the realization of the truth of the Bible, God made it clear that He was not only a personal God, but One who wanted to know ME, and that He knew everything about me--the number of every hair on my head (which lowers daily).
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Stop asking such hard questions!  :-)\n\nBut depending on who you ask, not really.  For all anyone knows for sure, the person reading this is actually a brain in a jar in a lab somewhere being "fed" misinformation.   (No, the Matrix guys didn't think that up, it's been a concept since before Buddha or Socrates.)\n\nThe usual answer is that while we can't know "reality" we can make logical judgments about the ideas being fed to us in our "brain jars"\n\nRead up on Socrates, Buddhism, and maybe Existentialism for a starting place.  Or email me for a dissertation... :-)
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how is anyone suppose to know this on the top of their head
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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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it has a lot to do with your subconcious mind. you pick up on more than you realize.
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No, I'm a scientist but I'm certainly not a genius. You do need to have an imaginative mind though. Most of the hands on work we do - anybody could do. Its thinking about why things work the way they do which is the hard bit. Most reasonable intelligent people can become scientists if they have a bit of imagination.
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The only person that can truly determine if you have ADD or not is a pysichiatrist after loads of evaluations, I'm afraid. :/
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Are you ready for this?  This is a branch of philosophy called epistemology, or the the study of knowledge.  In order to answer how you really know what you think you know, you first have to know what knowledge is.  That isn't easy either.  In fact, how do I even know I exist and that I'm sitting at this computer typing and am not simply a brain in the jar in some mad scientists laboratory?  (Metaphysics)
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Stunning. You really don't have a single brain cell wandering around in your head, do you?
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You may be hypnotized and not even know it.
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Magicians and advertisers play into the way the brain is wired. \n\nThe first trick is to create a 'willing suspension of disbelief'. Plays, ads, magic tricks, etc. first need to get you to be willing to accpet things you know are nto real as 'temporarily' real. In the case of a magic trick, it may be as simple as waiting for someone to ask to see a trick. In the case of movies, we are conditioned to accept a lot of foolishness as long as we are otherwise 'into' the movie.\n\nOnce we have accomplished this, the next trick is to give you a reason to believe. If I vanish a coin and make it reappear in a clumsy fashion, you won't buy into the fantasy, but if I do it with a nice theatric wave and a line of BS about transfering the atomic structure, you are more likely to swallow it.\n\nPeople enjoy being fooled, stumped, scared, and so on. We as a species LIKE feeling the whole gamut of emotions- as long as we know we are basically safe. This is also how things like roller coasters work- the illusion of danger, the reality of solid science.
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Of course these things are real. Let me give you an analogy.\n\nYou know once the government gave me and a group of people an I.Q. Test and I was having a blast with the questions, I'm nerdy like that, LOL. Any way, this guy looks at me and says "Don't bother answering those because there aren't any answers to them; they just ask them to drive you up the wall." I looked at the guys paper and saw it was blank so I asked him "Have you tried to answer any of the questions." and he replied "Yeah but they don't make any sense." To which I replied "They make perfect sense to me." He replied "Yeah, but you're one of those real smart guys, you can make up answers to those questions, cause you guys are way out in outer space."\n\nAnd so we have the truth of what "superstition" really is; anybody can score high on an I.Q. test, all it takes is effort: Just because some one has had an experience doesnt mean they are delusional, what it means is that they've taken the time to look deeply into things, and have walked where you have yet to walk.\n\nI've done exorcisms, and I've got physical scars from those M*&&^% F)*%$. I've had people into black magick send Mummies (not the maternal type) and demons after me that attack their prey in the Beta state of consciousness. You can't feel pain in dreams, but you can in the realm that is parallel to them. \n\nYes, you can not only protect yourself from them, but you can hurt them, and even kill them; with the right knowledge and hands on experience. Protection is easy, rather it's Jesus or what ever, they feed on your own evil and true good will protect you: Make no mistake, God is very real: to say these things don't exist is like that guy explaining intelligence away, it's as spiritually as he was intellectually lazy.\n\nIf you've read enough on this then you are probably puzzled as to why I have my picture available and why I am so open. Simple enough; I like Miyamoto Musashi.\n\nIt's as real as the floor beneath your feet; and if you have to ask some one else about it, I'd suggest not getting involved with it until you don't have to ask such preschool level questions about it. Not criticizing you, just letting you see where your level of knowledge on this subject is at; there are plenty of subjects I'm just as ignorant of.