You are assuming what most people assume, as you say to not go mad, but that doesn’t prove anything. We cannot even prove there are other concious people.
The main lines from there are roughly:
The world exist as we perceive it
We live in a simulation
We are a Boltzmann brain
Hence the “the brain is just s lump of fat, hallucinating” (I didn’t invent the phrase BTW, hence my reaction to people just being angry about it) it’s hallucinating consciousness. It gets blips from nerves, and that’s about it. How can it not hallucinate it’s imagined world?
As for going mad, you have several schools of philosophy dealing with the meaninglessness of existance; nihilism, existentialism and absurdism.
You can also reject all that and believe there is some god so that you don’t need to figure anything out at all.
It’s early in the morning, I might have answered questions that were not there and missed others.
Thank you.
You are assuming what most people assume, as you say to not go mad, but that doesn’t prove anything. We cannot even prove there are other concious people.
The main lines from there are roughly:
The world exist as we perceive it
We live in a simulation
We are a Boltzmann brain
Hence the “the brain is just s lump of fat, hallucinating” (I didn’t invent the phrase BTW, hence my reaction to people just being angry about it) it’s hallucinating consciousness. It gets blips from nerves, and that’s about it. How can it not hallucinate it’s imagined world?
As for going mad, you have several schools of philosophy dealing with the meaninglessness of existance; nihilism, existentialism and absurdism.
You can also reject all that and believe there is some god so that you don’t need to figure anything out at all.
It’s early in the morning, I might have answered questions that were not there and missed others.
Have a great day!