Thoughts are real as brain processes, measurable via neuroscience (like EEG or fMRI), but that doesn’t mean everything you imagine exists externally. Coherence in thought isn’t proof of reality.
but thoughts themselves are the reality
Thoughts exist as real brain activity, but that doesn’t make everything you imagine real. Reality exists independently of what you can think. If what you claim is true A khhv Incel could just imagine his first proper interaction with a woman and it would magically happen
let me make it more clear.
Yes, thoughts exist as neural activity, but that doesn’t make them real in the external world. Imagining something, no matter how coherent, doesn’t make it actually happen
there's no such border that distinguishes the external world and internal
Even if thoughts exist and are part of our experience, that doesn’t collapse the distinction that mental events occur in the brain, while external reality exists independently and can be measured objectively
by this logic if these are just your thoughts and that claim that external reality exists independently and can be measured objectively - are only your thoughts
yk what imma js imagine you here so i can have deep passionate sex with you
nah i'm asexual
Even if your perception of reality happens in your mind the fact that other people can measure and interact with the same reality shows it exists independently. Reality isn’t just your thoughts
but how do you know that other people even exist, if internal and external worlds aren't the same?
Even if I can’t experience someone else’s mind directly, their independent actions, unpredictable responses, and measurable effects in the world show that other people exist outside my own thoughts
no no no, it's not what i refer to. i mean, if external world and internal is not the same thing, so your claims of people's actions, responses etc are also only your own thoughts
if you take radical solipsism seriously, then yes, everything, including other people, could just be your thoughts. But that position is completely unfalsifiable and useless: it explains nothing and predicts nothing. Science and daily life work because treating the external world and other minds as independent consistently produces reliable, testable results
no, i debate solipsism. but your position (about if there's external and internal worlds) leads to solipsism
I know. But the title of this thread and the guy in the video puts all eastern thought in the same bag.
