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Old 06-09-2010, 04:25 PM   #217
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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore View Post
It's somewhat different from solipsism. According to solipsism, only I exist. If we are all trapped in illusions, there could still be an external world. We could all be trapped in illusions, but without any access to the external world we would have no way of knowing. Illusion only has meaning when contrasted against reality. If _everything_ is illusion, there is no reality with which to contrast it and concept loses its meaning.

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In my most extreme flights of fancy, I've pondered the possibility of whether all my apparent thoughts, perceptions, and history could be simply an accidental and momentary arrangement of subatomic particles destined to vanish in an instant; never again to reconfigure in that particular order.

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