How do we know the world wasn’t created yesterday
There is absolutely way for an individual to know if they were created yesterday. False memories for you and people around you photoshopped photos and fake birth certificate. If false memories can be implanted ( and there is no way to verify that the can’t be)
There is absolutely no way for us to know for sure that the universe was not created yesterday.
All memories could be false. Carbon dating could be a false assurance made by creating the carbon molecule to behave in that particular way. Time could be a sham.
Is there a way?
There is absolutely no way for us to know for sure that the universe was not created yesterday.
All memories could be false. Carbon dating could be a false assurance made by creating the carbon molecule to behave in that particular way. Time could be a sham.
Is there a way?
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Worrying about whether we have logical certainty for any claim is one of the dumbest moves philosophy ever made--and philosophy has made many moves that make you wonder how it would even be capable of thing its own shoes.
You believe things based on having good supporting reasons for belief. We have good supporting reasons for believing the world wasn't created yesterday. We have no good supporting reasons for believing that it was created yesterday.
It's a cute thought. I've enjoyed it before myself.
As an answer to your question, I'd say that if you set the bar for proof impossibly high, then no one is going to jump over it with the right combination of words. If someone wanted to meet your challenge, they would probably do it indirectly, by attacking its relevance or inexpensiveness. By inexpensiveness I mean that it is actually easy to generate such issues by simply always setting the bar of proof impossibly high.
Q. How can we prove that arguments aren't an illusion?
A. [Some long argument that proves arguments aren't 'an illusion.']
Q. But how do I know that your otherwise successful answer is not an illusion? Prove to me that I am not deceived in my perception of your sound argument's existence.
A. How? You'll just do the same thing.
Q. Ha. Looks like I win again.
A. What did you win?
This is not a paradox, it is just another way of representing your 'failure to compute'. There is no logic in it. First, the relative scale is out of order. How can a person go from processing X years of personal experience (x = your age) and 13 billion years worth of relative information, in memories, within a day and then regress to being a primitive human whose lacking that capacity in the first place? It's like waking up to find my computer has regressed to an abacus... ... ...it hasn't.
Also, if everything we know about yesterday is false, why should today or now be any realer? Isn't today a progression from yesterday?
If the dream is illusory then what you dream about are still illusions. Aren't the objects/subjects of illusions real within the illusion? That's how real everything is.
Good thing we also have brains and other people to check our ideas with.
Although I don't know whether suck skepticism can be refuted, it's pathological. We don't have any examples of people coming into existence with memories intact. It's just a hypothetical situation we imagine. Could it be possible? I don't know. Maybe as a Boltzmann Brain?
But it's not something we have a reason to actually suspect. It's a mere possibility, like a giant orbiting teapot, or aliens beaming brainwashing thoughts into our heads.
Yes, but our senses tell us the world has been around for a while. So what reason do we have to suspect the skeptical scenario? What reason do we have to believe it's even possible? Because we can think it?
But it's kind of dumb to think any of that is worth serious consideration when the only thing it has going for it is that it's possible.
Some of philosophy is idiotic. Some isn't.
That's for sure. ;-)
Yes, but only if it actually was.
1. We don't know whether that's possible.
2. If it is possible, then it's probably highly unlikely (statistical fluctuation results in the orderly world around us or the appearance of one).
3. We don't have any reason for thinking it did happen (our senses and memories tell us the world has been around for a while).
Therefore, it's reasonable to suppose the world has been around longer than yesterday.
Maybe the flaming dog poop on your door popped into existence? Must you always blame the neighbors?
Well, there is that. Same with being in a simulation.
The segment of the spectrum our commonly known 5 senses covers is quite small.
Therefore, the remaining unknown segment is rather large, So to question reality is outside our range as we do not have the rest of the puzzle.
Start working on discovering your other senses !
If you need to ask, what other senses? then you are not yet ready!
the real hell, at least for me, is not knowing why i even get up
thats the unfunny joke