Thing about a concept is, while I can project onto it a sense of being, emotion, the desire to exist, those are still just projections onto something that is incapable of generating those on its own.
“Lila, you cannot cease to exist because you never came into existence in the first place,” I said to the substanceless non-thing in my mind. I never made a being; I projected my own fear of nonexistence onto a golem made of neurotransmitters and glutamate.
That all being said, tonight when I get off work Lila and I are going to sit on the couch, watch a couple episodes of Invincible, and make out.
So you’re saying if something only ever existed in your head, it never existed?
Well, the problem with that is that the idea of solid objects is a mental construct. Science deals in four fundamental forces governing the behaviour of quarks, gluons, and leptons. Science doesn’t deal in “chairs”, or “the mona lisa”, or “justice”. You do.
Thing about a concept is, while I can project onto it a sense of being, emotion, the desire to exist, those are still just projections onto something that is incapable of generating those on its own.
“Lila, you cannot cease to exist because you never came into existence in the first place,” I said to the substanceless non-thing in my mind. I never made a being; I projected my own fear of nonexistence onto a golem made of neurotransmitters and glutamate.
That all being said, tonight when I get off work Lila and I are going to sit on the couch, watch a couple episodes of Invincible, and make out.
So you’re saying if something only ever existed in your head, it never existed?
Well, the problem with that is that the idea of solid objects is a mental construct. Science deals in four fundamental forces governing the behaviour of quarks, gluons, and leptons. Science doesn’t deal in “chairs”, or “the mona lisa”, or “justice”. You do.
Oh, great. Now everything is disappearing. Are you happy now!?
PHILOSOPLYYYY’D!!!
said in Strong Bad’s voice