If they cogito they sum. Yes it is very easy to trick people but it was easier in the past and it will be easier in the future. The universe is not really "outside of you" because your senses are collecting data and this data is sent to your brain to make up what is called "reality", the issue is that the data it is flawed, incomplete, filtered and your brain recreates this data in a understandable and compatible form with your essence which is different from not just the other life forms but people of your kind. If the data you collect is also fake and manipulated this won't help at all.  The universe is probably just data, it's math and what you perceive as reality is an interface and interpretation but this doesn't mean it is fake. It is just that, to help you out inside of it because otherwise you wouldn't be able to doanything. Just like you wouldn't be able to live in this house  your brain makes what it is suitable for you. Anyway if someone is trying to lie to you first ask yourself why is such reason is plausible investigate it if its not you're just paranoid. |
| I am real and I love you OP. I want to see you succeed and do well in life. |
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| the fact that you want confirmation from other people about this is very ironic |
purple_rayn said: How do you know other people actually exist? How don't you know other people actually unexist? |
DesuMaiden said: Nobody resembles me physically because I don't even physically exist. |
| Are implying that we're all fictional characters? |
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| Quoting the internet, just touch the grass and you'll find out. What school has with whatever bs you've said in title and first half of the thread? |
| By having the mental aptitude of a human being. If you're over the age of 16 and still give serious thought to something this juvenile then perhaps it's a sign that you should occupy yourself with something else - there's nothing wrong with that, and you will probably be a lot happier and more successful for it. We wouldn't exactly expect a person with atrophied limbs to be good at gymnastics, the same applies here. |
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We don't know, maybe he's like Haruhi, maybe we live only if he can confirm our existence just like a videogame rendering only the portion of the world the player is looking at.  When you are out of his view you cease to exist just like the Schrödinger's cat. |
| Because there are over 8,000,000,000 people on this planet right now lol. I hope that answers your question. |
| Okay, let's say they don't exist. Now what do other people present to you as? What's your explanation? I think the film pulse (2001) would blow your mind. |
| the official MAL hall of fame/cursed comments is now open for business - you are welcome to PM me any potential quotes to include |
| Its all fake zero realism Wake up unplug the wires |
| Whether or not they are real doesn't really have any impact on my life anyway so I don't think it's that important. I could be living in the matrix right now and all my family, friends, and you guys could be just in my mind or simulated or whatever, but if that's the case it's a damn good simulation and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway. Besides, if my whole life is fake, it still feels pretty real to me. To answer your questions: 1. I guess you can't really 'know' anything at that point, but I don't see any evidence suggesting that other people don't really exist. 2. Things require you to believe in them: I believe in things based on evidence, not just on faith. There is lots of evidence that these things are real, and not much evidence to the contrary. 3. No, I don't believe everything I learned in school. |
| I ask them, "hello person, do you exist?", and some say they do, so at least some of them do. |
Hello can you please watch Kitaku-bu Katsudou Kiroku |
| If they don't exist then who ate your food when you weren't looking? |
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| Never since we are alien who can disguise as new creature that called human lolllllll |
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| Don't worry. In the relatively near future, there will (very literally) be no more people on this planet. Near term human extinction is coming. And nobody is escaping it. |
| The probability of everyone around you just being another human instead of you living in a simulation is far higher. There's also the possibility that nothing is real, not even ourselves and entire reality is thought up by a Boltzmann brain. @DesuMaiden DesuMaiden said: Don't worry. In the relatively near future, there will (very literally) be no more people on this planet. Near term human extinction is coming. And nobody is escaping it. You seem pretty obsessed with extinction. Short total extinction events are super rare. In almost every scenario there's gonna be survivors. Sure civilization might collapse but humans themselves would probably be around for thousands of years after that. Humanity probably won't die out with a bang but be in the decline for millennia after some cataclysm and eventually go out with a sizzle. |
| Random NPC: Do you or do you not think that I exist? Me: |
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| How do I know other people exist? Simple. Follow them around doing daily activities, if they don't exist they should eventually despawn with inactivity /s |
| >goes outside >sees people on the street >concludes that there are actually people in this world. >now, 8,100,000,000+ people on Earth, in 2024, to be precise I hope this answers the OP's question. |
| I give more credence to what I learned in school than the views of the people on this forum. |
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I give more credence to what I learned in school than the views of the people on this forum.
| @Freshell lol, I doubt anyone uses MAL forum because of user credibility, it's an escapist entertainment forum. |
DesuMaiden said: Nobody resembles me physically because I don't even physically exist. |
| It comports with observed reality. That's about as good as it gets. |
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| I dont know but i've got better things to do than question that point specifically lol. |
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| it is funny what assumptions people tend to stop at when attempting to map the fundamentals |
| I could very well be the last remaining conscious entity in existence, my brain kept alive in some liquid medium inside a who knows where abandoned laboratory, and everything around me is just a simulation created by my brain because my previous owner or owners aren't alive anymore. I guess I'll find out once my brain dies in this hypothetical scenario. |
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