Things you can't see but you KNOW exist. (Discussion.)

Still snippy! Good for you.

This thread is to aid a class discussion my little violent cases are having at school.[/quote]

No, really. I’m trying to sew a patch on my jeans.[/quote]

Ha ha. Thats a pretty damn funny reply laddie.

My inner beauty. No one has seen it to date.

Life. A pair of lungs going up and down doesn’t do it for me.

Infinity. I want to see the end of pi.

Nice, available men with no major hang-ups. Although their existence is still disputed in the world’s greatest thinktanks. Chest hair optional.

My family. I can’t see them for a few more months, but I’m pretty sure they’re still hiding on the other side of the planet where I can’t see them.

The film “Above God.” It’s about the Time Cube guy, Gene Ray. Apparently per his request, it only plays at film festivals and is not available on DVD.

I see dreams. Oops–wait a minute, is “seeing” defined according to the eyes or the brain?

Ditto, plus my significant other, who I have not seen for way too long. I still believe he exists because he skypes at least once a week, but I can’t see him because before he met me he had a webcam which he threw in the garbage out of caprice. Obviously, this means he will never buy another.

All the people who come to my website…well both of them. I know they have been from the hit counter…or is that blind faith?

Tom Hill’s big curly afro.

Keys. You know they have to be in the room because you wouldn’t have got in the house otherwise but now you can’t see them.

Atmospheres. As in ‘the feeling of a place’. Or is this just psychological projection?

Heat/cold, unless icy/red hot.

The postman.

Australia.

Lots of examples for kids.

Tom Hill. And, indeed, everyone else.

We could all be living in the matrix for all I know. I could be living in the matrix and you could all be bits of (supposedly) intelligent software designed to keep my brain stimulated so I produce more energy.

We don’t KNOW anything for sure. It’s all down to what we have been or are being told by our senses, other people, or the wires in the back of our heads.

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We don’t KNOW anything for sure. It’s all down to what we have been or are being told by our senses, other people, or the wires in the back of our heads.[/quote]

Actually the Matrix is just a variation on the “Brains in a Vat” or the Cartesian “Evil Genius” hypotheses; how can we know that anything exists and that the sum of what we perceive as our sensory experience is not just a ruse.

Things we can’t see, but know exist: Time.

sounds like you should be reading hegel or heidegger or even sartre at this point, tom hill.

existentialism is a weak defence against reality, but its a pretty hard nut to break, philosophically speaking.

as karl popper put it, it is easier to accept the reality of an external life than it is to keep the defence going.

Those words mean nothing to me. :sunglasses:

My brain.

It does exist, right?

I mean. I think I think and all, but how do I know there’s not just this empty void behind my eyes?

Maybe we all have no brains and are simply robot creatures controlled by aliens.

Air. Well, sometimes I can see it. I saw it when I was in Hong Kong. It’s brown.

windows

Reminds me of this:

A bank account with $12 billion in it for me.
A toyota rav 4

The joy in my heart.

thoughts

my dust

Death, which may visit upon me in due course if I keep having mis-adventures with the lasses here in Taiwan.

Camouflaged trousers (and other camouflaged things).