:: Random Thoughts From a Diseased Mind ::

:: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 ::

So then, it appears that the greatest importance lies in a consistent interpretation of the external world. If the external appears to react in a consistent way in my interactions, than I can say that certain laws apply. It really matters not whether gravity exists but more so that I can reasonably expect it to exist each time that I physically interact with the external. It matters not what the color red looks like to me, so much as I can expect it to look the same to me each and every time that I perceive it and describe it.

Yet I do not know at any given time if these truths about the external have always applied or will always apply; I only know that they apply right now, in the present. I have a perception of a memory that these truths have applied to the external world in the past, but that is all. There is no guarantee. I may have come into existence this very moment with these built in fantasies.

But how am I to know that these rules will always apply to my perceived existence? Why do they not change at the whim of some higher power? From where does this certainty come?
:: Jim 9:42 PM [+] ::
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