Re: OT: Reality (was: Re: Atlantean)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 1:57 |
Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> > Sure, but that's not what Christophe was talking about. This is a case
> > where you can avoid the consequences of your actions. If reality is, in
> > fact, a hallucination, it doesn't change the fact that you can't change
> > the hallucination. You can't avoid the consequences of your actions by
> > "waking up".
>
> And how could one possibly know that?
Well, you can avoid the *personal* consequences of your actions by dying,
which may, after all, be analogous to waking up. Nobody knows.
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