Let's say I had a pen, and it transported me to a completely different planet when i touched my thumb to it, like Avatar in an alien body but only when touched with my thumbprint but my physical human body falls unconscious until I willing choose to come back to my human body
I would tell you about it, but since you can't go there yourself because it doesn't react to your thumbprint at all, you would say touching the pen put me in a coma for some reason and I hallucinated during that time
Doesnt mean you're right though. You just simply are incapable of experiencing it and thus believing for yourself
I'd be concerned for your mental health.
You'd have to at least be on Philip K. Dick's level for me to question it further.
I can garuntee though that if you experienced it for yourself you wouldnt be questioning whether it happened or not
You should be questioning it.
If you can't verify it, then all you're doing is accounting your own experiences. We have entire asylums full of people who are thrown off by this over not questioning their own worldview enough, in fact, it tends to be a telltale sign of low-functioning within a disorder.
It's like that "If you think you're insane, you're more sane than you thought" kind of logic, in that when they stop asking questions they spiral into madness. Doubt in the right forms is healthy.
because it would feel even more real than your life back in your human body. But thats the missing link, its what you dont understand because you csnt understand because you've never experienced it yourself. Your schizophrenic hallucinations are halluncinations. Astral travel isnt
Feelings shouldn't be enough on their own.
You're otherwise going into unfalsifiable circular logic, maybe I have experienced it and I don't believe in it's legitimacy.
At least not any more than your experience of day to day life which is technically a hallucination
The differences there lie in how many others are (feasibly) participating within the same stimulus.
We can sit as a crowd of people and compare what we're looking at, but if what you're seeing is just a byproduct of your mind... they'd have to be mind readers, or at least cold readers if not people studied in the subject.
Calling something a hallucination is sort of pointless since everything you experience seeing and interacting with is technically a hallucination of the brain
Assuming this isn't some giant simulation, the world is real, but how we see it is hallucinatory.
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