Does anything truly exist outside of our own minds?

Question

yesterday i asked if love really existed, and some people who answered suggested that love was a chemical reaction in the brain.............. everything that humans experience is interpreted through their five senses and then relayed to their mind.

what in this realm exists outside of your mind? how can you be certain that this entire realm exists only in your mind? what does this mean?

Answer 1

All the answers you will ever get will be our individual best guess. We can't really prove anything, nor disprove. We're born and we die everything in between is a shade of gray.



It reminds me of all bunch of cameras running around looking at one another.



It's all hidden in plain sight.

Answer 2

I viewed a television program some years back entitled, "What We Know, And How We Know It." It touched on the very subject given here and in it, gave monumental evidences that the truth lies not "outside," but rather, in ourselves. To answer your question of "What in this realm exists outside of our minds?" the answer is: All of it. Take away the various stimuli and chemical persuations of the human mind and you are left with palpable materialistic substances. Only now, without the chemcals of the brain, you now have before you an emotionless , uncaring void.

The point is that yes, everything does exist outside of your mind...chemicals and other stimulants just give it meaning. Some will never truly understand what it means to live outside of the box, having been conditioned to believe that things are EXACTLY as they seem. While others, well, others just have that added bit of "sense" to them.

Answer 3

I do not believe in chemical stimulus having anything to do with my love. It comes from God. I can not relay it or convey it on a screen, but i can describe it, i can show it. Love, it is a feeling which perplexes every mind in this life. But it is not something which can be analyzed, only felt, discovered, you will never see anything with your eyes closed.

You are overly analytical, with a complex and life defining emotion. Which can not be defined in the terms which you have sought for it to be boxed into.

It exists outside of my mind. I can be certain of this by the way my love effects those whose lives my love touches. What it means for me is that I am genuine with my love for people and conveying the message of love in the manners which give it the depth of meaning it holds. It touches each in many different varying ways, and it can be relayed only by action.

Answer 4

You're speaking of solipsism. Look it up.



We perceive the universe through our senses, and that perception is distorted both by those senses and our limited ability to comprehend the data.



But we do have tools that allow us to perceive reality more accurately - in particular mathematics. Even if, as in Quantum Theory, the reality mathematics shows us is almost senseless, we can still use it to work with this imperfect perception.



We can't see atoms, and we don't for instance experience solid objects as being mostly empty space - but we can still deal with the reality of them at any level thanks to maths and physics.



CD

Answer 5

Certainty is not evidence.



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Something has to exist before you can be certain that it exists.



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Ok, that didn't make sense...what I meant was, if something exists then being certain that is does is evidence of it's existence. Sorry.

Answer 6

Try without food for a month and the answer will be clear.

Answer 7

Yes.



Even science agrees that there are dimensions that we don't know how to access.



They are named hyperspace. (no joke! look it up)



When you say mind, do you mean the physiological process that is happening in your brain itself, or conciseness?

Answer 8

If you don't believe the sun is really really hot and really really real, then you really have an exaggerated sense of your own importance.

Answer 9

Without our senses how would we know

anything?