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Do you exist when you are asleep

to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Schroedinger's cats. Faced with the question do I exist, I would ask the questioner "what do you think". If he says that he does not think me to exist, then the only conclusion that we may come to is that to him I do not exist. Yet if another was to ask me the same question, in the belief that I do exist then in his version of the universe I do exist. This as I am sure Albert Einstein would agree is an example of relativity. A stimulus when detected by two different sensors becomes two different but probably similar stimuli. Descartes may disagree here being on his search for universal truth. However I am saying, that the only truth is your truth or namely your beliefs. (Sorry for the Hollywood style cheesy slogan). If there is no underlying truth outside of conceptual reality then there is no baseline from which to judge right and wrong, instead you must use your own truth. You may have developed this truth through logic from sound reasoning (aka Descartes Stylee) or through empirical knowledge but either way as long as your truth cannot be disproved for certain, then for you it is the ultimate underlying nature of things. Of course your views may change, but then the truth will also change. A good example of how this may make us see reality is a religious man in hospital. He sees a dying man suffering from a snakebite, the religious man says a prayer in the hope that god will cure the dying man. Later, a doctor comes and injects the patient with anti-venom. Within minutes the patient is back on his feet in good health. The religious man jumps up and cries hallelujah praise the lord who has chosen to save the ill man. Seeing this the doctor comes to explain to him that in fact the anti-venom saved the ill man, not his prayer. The religious man is insulted and steps back to say,"Did you not see this man's miraculous recovery? God's hand came down and took him from the jaws of death, praised be ...

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