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VGPolyglot said:
sabvre42 said:

So its safe to assume that you do not believe you truly exist either right? It is not independently verifiable.

How can you be sure that everything around you is not a dillusion formed from your own psychosis?
How can you be sure that this universe is NOT the holographic universe -- aka a computer simulation with us simply being artificial intelligence.

I could see you point if you simply doubted the existence of the universe entirely.

Yes, I do often question whether I or what is around me actually exists. I do wonder whether I or the universe really does exist.

 

Then for you - being an aethiest falls in line with your entire philosophy :). For most though, this is not the case. 

My complaint with most aethiests is that they assume everything is black OR white; that it is true or false; that it is binary.

When it comes to the concept of "god" they turn it into a thiestic god (a micromanager) vs no god. They forget about the concept of deism: that there is a creator that created the universe and may or may not interact with it. They also try to to conceptualize god as a singluar being rather than an abstract concept that lies outside of our reality.

Interstallar makes a strong parallel to "god" when they reference "them". Anything 5 Dimensonal could be outside of time as it would be able to travel through it like we do a field of grass.

Personally, I've been toying with the concept of time being a 4th spacial dimension; that being the expansion of the universe.