If the reality we experience is the only reality we have experienced, how do we know that there isn’t anything beyond our reality?
>>23820845Kinda wierd for there to be no reality when I blackout after too many drinks.
>>23820865Drinks of what?
>>23820845just discovered metaphysics? start with the presocratics buddy
>If I know of A and I only know of A, how do I know there isn't a B or C?what kinda stupid line of thinking is this?
>>23821271elaborate on this without devolving into solipsism (you cannot)
>>23821284no
>>23820845Generally, you’re going to hear babble about justified belief contained within the safest parameters of experience. Which, to me, seemed pointless since ontological narratives are crafted on this belief and, also, imagination or creativity in thought or theory becomes impossible or redundant.
>>23821312*…ontological beliefs are crafted around this narrative while never answering this base question.
>>23820845Skip the metaphysics, go straight into theoretical physics. Extra dimensions, nondeterminism, uncomputability, emergent spacetime, the special role of consciousness ... the rabbit hole is open for you if you are willing to learn the math
>>23821338Can you recommend me some reading that isn’t from a Deepak Chopra-tier quack? (I’m genuinely interested, I don’t mean to be rude to you anon)
>>23821347I liked Roger Penrose's "The Emperor's New Mind" very much.
>>23821338a good start for the uninitiated but will dissolve into numerical nonsense in the end.go pluck me a negative number of apples while you're at it (no offence)
>>23821358You don't need to know the math though, you just need to understand what the implications of it are. Penrose doesn't seem to get this or doesn't trust his audience enough, so he wastes most of the book explaining the math. I've also read a few other physicists on metaphysics: Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Rovelli. Schrödinger was the more interesting, but it was in no way superior to studying Zeno's paradoxes or Plato's Parmenides. I just started reading GEB and it seems much like Emperor's New Mind but Höfstadter is far more direct than Penrose.
You don't. That's how a horizon works.
