What is the Matrix, Alex? Just kidding...we all exist...even if we don't want to. Sometimes I used to wish that my dream life was my real life, but I am happy now. I dunno...
Proving your own existence is easy. Descartes whole deal, his actual expression, "I doubt, therefore I am" translated of course, is that something has to be doing the doubting. Doubting your own existence requires you to exist to be doubting it in the first place
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What do you think about the 'meaning of life' in the case of the sims? Sometimes I find it hard to think that our lives are meaningless, then other times it just seems like our lives ARE meaningless, and thats fine. I dont know if Im content to be here just for someone elses amusement.
Maybe it is meaningless, if we are in the "Sims scenario." But by the same token, most people make some kind of figure representing themselves when they play the Sims. Similar to Christian theology of god making man in his image. And when you play as yourself, you don't always just torment your character, you try to do things in the Sims that are either almost impossible in reality jobwise or lifestyle wise, or things that are far ahead of our current place in life.
So by that token, we could be the avatars of a flawed teenage-deity figure, living out the lives that even that deity is incapable of, or currently not able to. While it still falls under a sort of "for someone else's amusement," it certainly is a more optimistic view, that we could be the manifestations of a flawed deity who wishes he could be like us.
One must also realize the emphasis,you see Descartes was wrong in that he said "i THINK therefore i AM", placing the focus on that fact that the act of thinking was what makes one real, and though he is in error. The quote should read as "I think therefore I am" you see here we place the focus on the more freudian aspects of the self, and touch in no small part on Laccan's mirror theory. You see it is the fact that YOU think hat makes YOU real, the previous statment gives rise to the cocept of people, but the second actualizes what is the self.
That makes a good deal of sense... But I still dont know. I guess we arent meant to know the meaning of certain things, though I don't really place much stock in fate and things being meant to be one way or another. I just can't seem to see the point in it all... I don't know WHY I exist. Sometimes I feel like I must have a purpose, then other times I feel like our only purpose is to live, and die. Nothing else. IT's strange because I know I should do good, but I've been taught what good is and other people may not agree with what is or isn't 'good.' How do we make the world a better place? By following our insticts? Our moral code? I mean, I guess Ghandi did what he did to make the world a better place, but didn't Hitler do the same? In his own eyes he WAS making the world a better place. Maybe I should go to sleep now. hehe.
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So by that token, we could be the avatars of a flawed teenage-deity figure, living out the lives that even that deity is incapable of, or currently not able to. While it still falls under a sort of "for someone else's amusement," it certainly is a more optimistic view, that we could be the manifestations of a flawed deity who wishes he could be like us.
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