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#1  Edited By Levio

How do I know that anyone else actually exists? And if I'm not the only person, am I the only person who wonders if I'm the only person?

"I think therefore I am" -- Socrates

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#2  Edited By TheGreatGuero

How do you know that YOU exist?

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#3  Edited By KarlPilkington

No.

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#4  Edited By SlasherMan

And if you're not the only person who wonders if he's the only person, are you the only person who wonders if anyone else wonders if he's the only person?

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#5  Edited By N7

Man, when I watched The Truman Show, I got pretty fucked up for a while too.

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#6  Edited By Pezen

Should we discuss the color perception problem as well, and throw in a dash of meaning of life? And round it all up with a healthy long debate regarding the sentient qualities of fries?

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#7  Edited By ajamafalous

Dude, what if, instead of being the people outside the mirror, we are the people in the mirror?

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#8  Edited By WickedCestus

That's deep bro. 

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#9  Edited By Dain22
@Levio said:

How do I know that anyone else actually exists? And if I'm not the only person, am I the only person who wonders if I'm the only person?

"I think therefore I am" -- René Descartes

Fixed that for you. 
 
Also, you're actually in a coma.
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#10  Edited By Bollard
@ajamafalous said:

Dude, what if, instead of being the people outside the mirror, we are the people in the mirror?

I AM the mirror.
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#11  Edited By SwiprNOSEwipng

OH SHIT. I can't deal with this right now.

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#12  Edited By valrog
@Levio said:

How do I know that anyone else actually exists? And if I'm not the only person, am I the only person who wonders if I'm the only person?

"I think therefore I am" -- Socrates

Socrates never said that, Descartes did.
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Computer end program.

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#14  Edited By ShaggE

Could... like... God microwave a burrito SO hot that even he could not eat it? Whoa...

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#15  Edited By TheUnsavedHero

May I suggest that you are perhaps, in the Matrix Mr. Anderson...

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#16  Edited By MEATBALL

No John, you are the demons.

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#17  Edited By zyte
@ShaggE said:
Could... like... God microwave a burrito SO hot that even he could not eat it? Whoa...
LOL too deep. <_>
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#18  Edited By Draugen

Shit, guys. He's onto us! Act natural...

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#19  Edited By ajamafalous

@Chavtheworld said:

@ajamafalous said:

Dude, what if, instead of being the people outside the mirror, we are the people in the mirror?

I AM the mirror.

Whoa.

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#20  Edited By JoeH

Dude, google it.

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#21  Edited By ikaruga

first day of phil 101?

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#23  Edited By mnzy
@ShaggE said:
Could... like... God microwave a burrito SO hot that even he could not eat it? Whoa...
The microwave would be my god.
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#24  Edited By critthreat
@Levio said:

How do I know that anyone else actually exists? And if I'm not the only person, am I the only person who wonders if I'm the only person?

"I think therefore I am" -- Socrates

yes
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#25  Edited By Mysterion

Bro, have you ever thought about colours, I mean what's green for you might be blue for somebody else. Think about it.

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#26  Edited By Kandycane2029

You only exist in the only person who really exists' mind. And they only exist in a dream.

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#27  Edited By Hizang

What if that when your "awake" your actully dreaming and when your "Asleep" your actully just in a coma?

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#28  Edited By Levio

@Mysterion said:

Bro, have you ever thought about colours, I mean what's green for you might be blue for somebody else. Think about it.

No way, if that were true then I could just run every red light I want to because I could claim it was green.

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What if Giantbomb doesn't exist and we are all just looking at blank screens!

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#30  Edited By grinderman

It's all elaborate dream man

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#31  Edited By LiquidPrince

@Levio said:

How do I know that anyone else actually exists? And if I'm not the only person, am I the only person who wonders if I'm the only person?

"I think therefore I am" -- Socrates

Socrates... lol.

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#32  Edited By crusader8463

  Somewhere in the universe this is happening.

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#33  Edited By AhmadMetallic
@crusader8463:  Dude.. that's some heavy nyanning right there
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#34  Edited By beargirl1
@Chavtheworld said:

@ajamafalous said:

Dude, what if, instead of being the people outside the mirror, we are the people in the mirror?

I AM the mirror.
SHIT.
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#35  Edited By Klaimore

I know I'm really late to the party but I just watched Inception so I have no idea what reality could be, and at this point I don't care I like it here.

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@Levio said:

How do I know that anyone else actually exists? And if I'm not the only person, am I the only person who wonders if I'm the only person?

"I think therefore I am" -- Socrates

This is all just one big troll, surely? 
 
For one thing it was Descartes, not Socrates.
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#37  Edited By blair

No. I"M the only person.

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#38  Edited By FilipHolm

Oh...my... god...

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#39  Edited By defaulttag

@Levio: @Hizang: @Klaimore: @AjayRaz: @grinderman: @Kandycane2029: @ikaruga: Dude, so like...

What if what we experience/sense/feel is what we consciously or subconsciously expect or want to happen? As in we were brought up to be assimilated into a specific type of reality which is now? Is it possible to break that barrier of what we expect? Or perhaps to EXIST is to PERCEIVE a CERTAIN WAY....

Everyone here pretty much has the idea that what is 'physical' is real, and what is 'in the mind' is not.

But if you think about it, we were brought up to be 'physical.' Yet, we govern ourselves, our purposes, our actions, through our minds. But is the mind, physical? Not at all. You can argue that our thoughts and actions are JUST neurons in the brain firing. But where does that intention to fire neurons come from? This consciousness that each and every human has. Surely, its not just a chaotic stream of firing neurons.

You can go into the idea of dreams- ARE they real? When you are experiencing that dream at that moment, it does feel real, right? Until you 'wake up' and come back to THIS plane of reality.

What I'm trying to say is, the invisible, the consciousiness, the mind, is as much as itself AREALITY in itself that works harmoniusly with the physical. Which is pretty fucking awesome and mind blowing!

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#40  Edited By EuanDewar

That reminds me, I have to buy an eighth and meet up with my friend. We're gonna go listen to dubstep and zone out.

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#41  Edited By Aronman789

I've lived with the thought that everyone else is robots for my whole life, and I've come to accept it.

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#42  Edited By Simplexity

Nothing as hilarious as miscredited quotes.

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#43  Edited By HellBrendy

Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me? 

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#44  Edited By Sanity

We could be a higher beings dream man, the universe could end just as easily as it wakes up and then a new big bang starts when he falls asleep again.

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#45  Edited By phrosnite

These kind of thoughts have passed through my mind many times :)

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#46  Edited By alistercat

I love it when someone jumps on a forum, making a thread, feeling 'deep, when philosophers have been asking these question in an intelligent manner for hundreds of years. Even thousands. But no, anon forum user has a breakthrough.

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#47  Edited By defaulttag

@HellBrendy: nicely worded. 'or is it just me.' while referring to solipsism because that's exactly what solipsism is. 'it IS just me.'

An intriguing philosophy, but sadly a lonely one to live by.

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I. Am. A BANANA

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#50  Edited By monkeynuts8