Actually you’re wrong about that - it’s some other guy that exists and we’re all figments of his imagination. And I’m not him, but I have it on good authority that he erroneously thinks he’s a figment of somebody else imagination.
It doesn’t matter for anything, but that Cecil article doesn’t seem to really support calling Einstein a plagiarist.
Everybody is dumber than they think they are.
Except me. I’m freakin’ brilliant!
“What’s the opposite of your answer to this question?”.
There. Everyone gets it wrong.
“inflammable”.
No, but it mentions the allegations (hence the qualified “Cecil on the topic”). He also wrote one on MLK.
I vote we track that fucker down. I don’t know about you guys, but he imagines me all wrong.
There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit, and it’s filled with people who are filled with shit. But not for long–not if I and my friend Mrs. L. have anything tosay about it. We’ll feed half of you to the other half, and sing while doing it.
I could tell you, but you wouldn’t believe me.
Actually, here’s an interesting one.
Most people assume that inanimate matter is unconscious & non-sentient. I think this unlikely. More likely, all matter is conscious, but what makes animals’ neural networks different is the ability to collect data & store memories.
Yeah, but some people believe in that - I personally am a firm believer in the perversity of the inanimate.
Your blender is conspiring to kill you. Seriously. Ignore it at your peril!
What information leads you to believe that rocks are conscious?
Not so much rocks as their component molecules. They’re made of electrical fields which can respond to pressure. Ergo, they could “feel” touch. They just can’t remember it.
I know, six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Fred? Winifred Burkle? Izzat you?
We’re all wrong about hallucinogenic drugs. We think that they make us see/hear/feel things that aren’t really there. This is incorrect. Hallucinogens allow us to see the world as it really is, instead of the illusion generated by the collective subconsciousness of mankind. Furthermore, reality is different for each one of us, which is why two people in the same room can take acid and have different experiences.
Please note that I am also wrong about this, and the reality is some third possibility, which is not some combination of the other two. A third possibility which no one has considered, and when someone figures it out, it will instantly become wrong, as this is the on thing that we can never be right about.
I’m with Der Trihs that this is a question that’s impossible to answer.
Anyway, I submit the next closest idea:
Objective time. Everyone feels (not necessarily believes) that their now is your now and so on. Which isn’t the case; each and every person’s now, diverges from everyone else’s, even though the differences are so very, very tiny. And what makes this the “next closest thing” is that there’s no way to really tell how many nano-seconds I’ve gained or lost compared to you or anyone else.
20 years ago nobody thought Big Mac containers could destroy the ozone layer. Does that count?
Count as something that we all believe but are wrong about? Well I don’t believe that because I can prove it’s wrong.
20 years ago this “fact” was the biggest news story around. I doubt you could find a week in 1989 when this “fact” wasn’t mentioned any popular publication of your choice.
But more than one solipsist exists. In fact, everyone is a solipsist.
And they’re all wrong.
Something exists, but you only think it is you!
Everyone believes they’re right.