Extreme Scepticism

[notdej]

More seriously, we can only perceive the immediate present.

probably because there's nothing else but the immediate present

 

[Yithian]

probably because there's nothing else but the immediate present

I'm no expert, but do "events in space-time" ring a bell?

 

[dr wu]

Time to quote Robert Anton Wilson....
"If you think you know what's going on, you are probably full of shit."

 

[Yithian]

Time to quote Robert Anton Wilson....
"If you think you know what's going on, you are probably full of shit."

Probably correct.

But we can perhaps work out what can't be going on. And if we can find out all the things that can't be going on, we will be left with a more limited number of things that might be going on.

 

[dr wu]

Probably correct.

But we can perhaps work out what can't be going on. And if we can find out all the things that can't be going on, we will be left with a more limited number of things that might be going on.

I'll have to get drunk first so I can understand that comment .

 

[Yithian]

I'll have to get drunk first so I can understand that comment .

The beer will cushion your system a bit. And don't forget the salt and protein--I suggest peanuts.

 

[eburacum]

An extreme skeptic would know that you only need two entities in the universe- the observer, and an omnipotent demon that can create the illusion of the rest of the universe.
An extreme solipsist skeptic only needs one entity; him or herself, with a split personality, half of which is deceiving the other half.

 

[notdej]

An extreme solipsist skeptic

define an extreme solipsist believer