How can I prove that everything I see really exists and isn’t just an illusion/ image created by my brain? How can I really know that once I look away from something that it is still there and doesn’t turn black? I thought about the mirror, but maybe the image in the mirror is also just created. The people I hear talking behind me could also be gone but I only hear the audio and once I turn around they appear visually. I thought about using a camera but the content that is saved on the camera could also be fake.
Can someone tell me how to prove that others really exist?
How can I really know that people are responding to this question and not only AI? I have absolutely no proof that this forum could be real. Look at ChatGPT.
I have so many questions.
You could do various things to make it harder (drop some odd-shaped things in the cooler), but omniscience pretty much has to be a hard limit - and so we’re back to Plato’s cave (or brain in-a-box) otherwise. If you’re omniscient, though, you would know what people are doing when you’re not focused on them.
This led to an interesting question. Can a being be omnipotent without being omniscient? In other words, maybe I do create reality as I go (hence omnipotent) but I don’t know how I do it nor what things are doing when I’m not looking at them (hence not omniscient)
I don’t see why not - I can create lots of things I know nothing about, not to mention emergent behavior.