32480, You spell out a logical answer and then contend it. Posted by moot_point, Mon May-23-05 07:02 AM
>>>so everything you've posted in here is a metaphor? for >>what? >>>what is it a metaphor for? objective reality? > >Question: did you answer the question? >Answer: no
What are you talking about? The answer is written underneath this. Language is a metaphor for the object world, not objective reality. > >>Language does describe the object world (it describes other >>things as well), but this defines our subjective reality. > >what is your subjective reality?
My subjective reality is everything that exists in my head. No reality exists beyond this.
> >>There ARE highly valid subjective notions, which can be >>tested. For example, the light switch analogy that InVerse >>stressed. However, in the final analysis they remain >>subjective because this 'reality' is created and expressed >by >>the mind... > >wrong. the mind is the part of objective reality that allows >you the subject to perceive this reality, by constructing >understandings of reality...subjectivity...imaginary >landscapes, social theory, works of fiction etc etc etc etc. >So Basically what you are saying to me is that you are living >in your head...
This is mixed up. Objective reality is a contradiction in terms. Tell me something that is 'real' that your mind didn't conceive. You can't. All reality is subjective. Therefore yes, I am living in my head. So too are you.
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