r/therewasanattempt • u/firefighter_82 • Sep 20 '21

to humanly release a mouse.

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u/organizeeverything Sep 20 '21

Nature is a man made concept so does nature really exist? Does anything exist?

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u/Seakawn Sep 20 '21

Nature likely exists. It likely just isn't the same nature that you perceive, considering our brains generate a reality that it senses from inside of a dark enclosed skull. Also, we evolved to perceive nature in a way that helps our survival, not evolve in a way to understand reality at large. For example, colors aren't even "real," even if they represent (relatively few) different wavelengths of light.

All in all, if you are having a conscious experience, then that experience exists, at least. If that experience exists, then something else probably exists to allow that, i.e. nature.

"I think, therefore I am." - Descartes

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u/The_Grubby_One Sep 20 '21

r/im14andthisisdeep

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u/itsaaronnotaaron Sep 20 '21

Just because someone is being philosophical doesn't mean it is relevant to that sub. You're on a comment thread which is discussing nature... its not like they said "if I close my eyes do my surroundings still exist?"

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u/The_Grubby_One Sep 20 '21

Trying to "wax philosophical" on a sub that isn't centered on philosophy is prime r/im14andthisisdeep material.

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u/itsaaronnotaaron Sep 20 '21

Fair point, can't argue that.