Objective Tests For Reality

[steve_bank]

Are there any objective tests for reality?

The steve back reality test.

Find a strong concrete wall. Write down how you are feeling. Bend over and run your head into the wall as fast as you can. Record how you feel and compare to how you felt bedsore.

If there is no change and you went through the wall it is not real. If you are bleeding, dizzy, and have a cracked skull the wall is probably real.

If unsure repeat the test with a statistically valid sample size.

 

[untermensche]

So your test of reality is based on subjective feelings in a mind?

That is no objective test of anything.

The external world cannot be proven to exist.

All we have are subjective experiences of it.

Nothing objective.

Impossible to get anything objective except the knowledge that one is experiencing.

All we know is that there is an experiencer and experiences.

We know nothing else for certain.

 

[WAB]

Are there any objective tests for reality?

The steve back reality test.

Find a strong concrete wall. Write down how you are feeling. Bend over and run your head into the wall as fast as you can. Record how you feel and compare to how you felt bedsore.

If there is no change and you went through the wall it is not real. If you are bleeding, dizzy, and have a cracked skull the wall is probably real.

If unsure repeat the test with a statistically valid sample size.

For some reason a poem called Epistemology comes to mind:



I.
Kick at the rock, Sam Johnson, break your bones:
But cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones.

II.
We milk the cow of the world, and as we do
We whisper in her ear, 'You are not true.'

- Richard Wilbur


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