08-14-2004, 10:43 AM
Quote:While we are on the subject of deep thinking, what if everybody wasn't real except for me (in your case, you) like the world was like created for you and everybody else was just a robot or something.
Or, something... It is good to take your brain out for a walk once in a while. Start with Plato, and then Aristotle, and if you are further curious press on to A Primer on Existentialism, and then Locke, Hume on Empiricism, and Francis Bacon.
And, before you ask "... then are we all just cogs in some larger cosmic machine";
Determinism vs. indeterminism