Philosophy

This is real simple. I know a lot of people at some point have given some thought at it. Even my 10 year old bro ponders on it. So it's like this: The world, as you preceive it, is not real. There's no known trusted method that can determine if the world is real. The reality is defined by the electric impulses from your sensories and perceived by your brain. As in the matrix triology, let's say your sensory pathways are tapped half-way, with false sensory information being sent to your brain. So whatever you do, you're confined to this artificial perception or artificial world of yours. Therefore you can never determine if the world is real.
Rene Descartes(1596-1650), a mathematician and philosopher, had this idea too, and he has his own theories, of which we call the automata theory. Based on his theory, even dogs and cats may be robotic devices that were designed to convince you that they're flesh and alive real-world organisms.(It doesn't have to be robotic, it can be anything(nanotechs,neurostimulation,etc), but it goes to show how Rene's ideas are confined by the technology at that time, yet he's way ahead of his time).
More coming up on theology, multiple-level of consciousness, self-awareness, cognitive ability, artificial intelligence, neural networks, etc.
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