CHAT: mass-hallucination?

Ray Brown wrote:

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> Are you suggesting that not only my senses but the senses of people who
> live in our road and of certain other people here in the south-east of
> England are untrustworthy? Are we all suffering some sort of
> mass-hallucination? Or what???

I'd say that not even mass hallucination is neccesary.  It's possible
that you're the only person in the universe -  you only need one
hallucination to hallucinate everyone else hallucinating.

I'd suggest two or three axioms for the universe that we can be sure of:

1)A consciousness (namely, me) exists.
2)There is some ability to process data (although 'process' implies
time, which, again, rather lacks evidence), which leads to the way I
percieve the world.

Other than that, everything is an assumption.

Personal musings over.  Comment if you want.  It interests me.

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