Does anything actually exist?

[Snafu in the Void]

There is a spoon in my hand.

But... How do I really know for sure? I can see it in my hand. I can feel the weight of it in my hand.... But how do I really know, with the truest of perfect certainty, that there is actually a spoon in my hand?

How can you prove it to me? How can you prove to me that anything in this world actually exists? What if this is all a simulation?

We can never know. Therefore science is false!

 

[Rectify]

Not here, not now.

 

[bingey]

Pain is the only thing out there that makes me doubt this logic.

 

[Snafu in the Void]

Pain is the only thing out there that makes me doubt this logic.

What is pain? Is pain real? What is pain but a hallucination???

We can experience pain in a dream

 

[bingey]

Feels realer than the other hallucinations i guess

 

[ovenbakedskittles]

You can prove it by acknowledging the nature of polarity/duality. Which would suggest that the spoon in your hand both exists and doesn’t exist at the same time. That would integrate the opposing propositions and would therefore be more in alignment with objective reality.

 

[deficiT]

My spoon is too big.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

If I don't read this post, does it exist?

If it doesn't exist what does it matter?

 

[simstim]

Possibly I'm really lame, but i believe in things, things which add up to reality. I wish i could eat a bunch of acid and claim nothing was real but my mind doesn't work that way... other times i try and live like I'm in an I.V k hole where nothing exists.

 

[4meSM]

Something has to exist, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to ask questions.

The spoon in your hand may not actually be a spoon, it could be an alien disguising itelf as a spoon, or some kind of computer code. Whatever it may be, you interact with the spoon and it interacts with you, neither of you would be the same without each other.

But where do spoons come from anyway? Someone had to make the first one, but where and how did he/she get the idea?
Were spoons somehow destined to pop into existence as soon as we (humans) showed up?

I've said the word spoon so many times that it's starting to sound weird in my head.

 

[woyzeck]

Spoonerism ? How the fuck did they come up with that ?

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Spoonerism ? How the fuck did they come up with that ?

Don't you mean 'roonerspism'?

 

[woyzeck]

I love it, and Ive invented a meaning for it. When you've discovered a new word while crackin' and you cant stop saying it
"Roonerspism"

 

[Gnostic Bishop]

O.P.

If you do not exist, who/what is in your chair as you respond?

Regards
DL

 

[Foreigner]

It's sort of a navel gazing question that doesn't really matter, to be honest.

Things are either seemingly happening or actually happening, but you don't have control over it either way, so?

 

[Snafu in the Void]

It's sort a navel gazing question that doesn't really matter, to be honest.

Absolutely, I was being a bit silly. The answer escapes logic and words.

It is an interesting idea, though.

How could you ever truly prove anything? Science is just a best guess.

 

[FuckinAcidMan]

yeah things are probably real and do in fact exist

 

[Snafu in the Void]

yeah things are probably real and do in fact exist

........how can we be sure?

What if life is a dream? Or simulation?

 

[Jabberwocky]

You know what doesn't exist...any fucking smack to go in that damn spoon...

 

[Gormur]

What is pain? Is pain real? What is pain but a hallucination???

We can experience pain in a dream

Pain doesn't really tell us anything and I think it's a subjective experience, at least to a degree. I think the idea of a spoon existing or of the person holding it even existing is different from asking if anything exists. Since I'm not a philosopher I should probably be quiet now. I'd just add that if you look in a mirror and don't see a reflection then maybe you don't exist