/soy/ - Soyjaks

>>16475980 (OP)
tricks and hallucinations are deviations from what i am used to, which is why i can point them out. it implies that there is a norm that exists in my perception and has and does exist to inform my view of the world, so i can say that it exists and is true because it is stable, logically consistent and present

>>16476151
This would be true if I had offered a specific example of a hallucination, but I didn't. I simply know from things like science that it is completely possible. And you could say that my understanding of this supposed scientific proof of the mind's ability to create illusions is an illusion in and of itself, but that would only further prove that the mind can do such things in the first place.

she's right, the entire material world is but an illusion.
'There is (in this world) neither Reality nor absence of illusion. It is a surreptitious Reality, it is a cancelled Reality, it is a lie, a childish babble, an illusion.'
'Because all elements (that are active in the process of life) contain nothing real Plurality is an illusion.'
'All phenomena in the world are illusory, they have no abiding substance Sentient beings no less than Buddhas are like images reflected on water.'

>>16476234
why do you trust things like science to lead you to the truth about the perceptible world? saying reality is or could all be an illusion really means nothing when you spend all day acting and thinking as if it's all completely real, usually subconsciously, because it's impossible to do otherwise.