First of all, you cannot think when and about what you want. Same as you cannot want what you want. This leads to an infinite recursion. No system can understand itself for that the very understanding would evade itself forever. A bin trying to contain itself.
Anyway, there is no reason to go beyond physical, factual inquiry right now. You can assess your data with practicability. If a drug makes you think that you can fly you can jump from the next bridge and be brought back down to earth by reality.
Reality is not subject to interpretation, only description and abstraction. The fundamental nature of reality, its characteristics and qualities are absolute. Red is always red even when you call it green.
You don’t have to have a comprehensive grasp to determine the simplest of all conclusions: Something exists or it doesn’t. Either something is tangible or it doesn’t exist. My definition of subsistence is for something to have an influence on me. This also implies that something that exists can be subject to scientific inquiry. Something that exists can be assessed with practicability. It makes a difference.
If I cut my throat I may discover that I was dreaming or that I have been playing some advanced virtual reality game all along. Everything is possible. But right now there are safer and more promising options of gaining knowledge. How can I be sure? I can’t, but there is evidence which proved to be reliable so far. I have to suspect that it will continue to be reliable based on experiment and observation. That doesn’t make it the ultimate way of knowing or even a superior way but the best I know of at this time. And until I hit some hard barrier I do not have any good reason to try something else.
First of all, you cannot think when and about what you want. Same as you cannot want what you want. This leads to an infinite recursion. No system can understand itself for that the very understanding would evade itself forever. A bin trying to contain itself.
Anyway, there is no reason to go beyond physical, factual inquiry right now. You can assess your data with practicability. If a drug makes you think that you can fly you can jump from the next bridge and be brought back down to earth by reality.
Reality is not subject to interpretation, only description and abstraction. The fundamental nature of reality, its characteristics and qualities are absolute. Red is always red even when you call it green.
You don’t have to have a comprehensive grasp to determine the simplest of all conclusions: Something exists or it doesn’t. Either something is tangible or it doesn’t exist. My definition of subsistence is for something to have an influence on me. This also implies that something that exists can be subject to scientific inquiry. Something that exists can be assessed with practicability. It makes a difference.
If I cut my throat I may discover that I was dreaming or that I have been playing some advanced virtual reality game all along. Everything is possible. But right now there are safer and more promising options of gaining knowledge. How can I be sure? I can’t, but there is evidence which proved to be reliable so far. I have to suspect that it will continue to be reliable based on experiment and observation. That doesn’t make it the ultimate way of knowing or even a superior way but the best I know of at this time. And until I hit some hard barrier I do not have any good reason to try something else.