Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
> --- Daniel Andreasson <danielandreasson@...>
> wrote:
> > John Cowan scripsit:
> >
> > > My answer would probably be to hand you back the
> > brick and
> > > say "You're an idiot." (This is rather Zen, at
> > that.)
> >
> > As for me, I would hit him in the head with the
> > brick and ask
> > "Is your pain objectively real?" ;)
> >
> > Daniel Andreasson
>
> Can I prove my pain to anyone else? No. Therefore it
> is not objectively real, only subjectively real, and
> only for me.
That doesn't process. Since when is provability a prerequisite for objective
reality?
Andreas