Metaphysics
Have you ever thought you heard something, but there was nothing there? Have you ever thought you saw someone in the corner of your eye, and when you looked there was no person there? There are thousands of occasions when we think something is really there, but when we go to investigate, we find no culprit for the strange sight or sound. Some may say ghosts had made the sounds some may say it was just part of our brain making up the sound or vision. If we are wrong on some occasions about what we sense, is it not possible that we are always deceived? Logically I would say yes to this question. It is possible that things as we perceive them are not that way at all? What is real? It is one of life's most challenging questions, and one which does not have a set answer. Life in general is full of mysteries which in many cases seem to contradict and confuse. What makes something real? Is it a physical object which is the most real, or is it something we cannot see, but experience mentally, in our everyday lives. I don't have a good answer. But as I search for a better understanding I hope to find an answer which, to me at least seems to be the right one. Some believe that everything is either mind or matter but not both. M
I base my ideas on logic. But, logic is based onactual reality and what we know as being true. Sometimes though, these are not reliable. In order to better understand these questions of metaphysics, we need to define the terms being used. ental things are thoughts, or ideas, that only the people having them can experience. But any material thing can be experienced by anyone with the sense organs, etc, to perceive it. The main difference, I suppose is that only I can experience my thoughts, Real things have mass, size, locations, etc. Whereas mental things do not. We do think in normal life about mind and matter as being ways to talk about thoughts and objects (or processes). But some thinkers deny the existence of mental events - believing everything is matter. And some deny the existence of material things - believing everything is mind. The scientific theory of reality might lead us to believe that we can only know 'mental events', but, just as rationally it might also lead us to believe that these are really matter. If mind and matter are totally different - how can one affect the other? How can we think 'I'll go to town' and our material bodies actually go to town? How can a thought which is totally different from a physical event affect my actions? Clearly, it could not. Furthermore, if mind a
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