Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-29192496-20170410191924/@comment-25947144-20170410203230

Perhaps one of the biggest issues here is that this is not scary. We've had a few philosophical pieces here that have lacked horror in the past, but they usually brought something new to the table. Frankly, this isn't very new. It combines already known facts about reality with redundant and impossible to prove theories and ends with a missused term. It's the old "is the reality real?"

Reality is defined as the sum of the most common elements perceived by most humans. That's also what we use to define delusional, someone who perceives reality radically different from most other humans. So we literally can't all be schizophrenic. The whole concept about 'is blue blue' is also pretty redundant, blue is just a word we use for a color, it doesn't really matter what name we use for it as blue doesn't have a "real" name, just names we attribute to it. Also, you hear your own voice differently because the sounds coming from inside you travel through a different path from other sounds.

It's already known that what we perceive is a representation created by our mind. It...would be impossible any other way. There is also no "true" way of perceiving things. There are other spectrums other than the ones we see in and other frequencies than the ones we can hear in. And you implying that everything we perceive is fabricated is impossible, we can't have an imagination without any sensory input. And if you're response is, "Well, maybe we're taught to believe that," then that brings up other issues.

Isn't it only impossible to prove, as it at least would serve as a thought experiment, even if it was provable it would be effectively useless. It would be at most an "eh", not modifying our lives or scientific understanding in any major way.