Re: OT: Reality (was: Re: Atlantean)

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> 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.
That as well. But how could I absolutely _know_ I can't change how the real
world works?

                                                      Andreas

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