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Chain 37
From Chains of Reason
The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
Link 1
- Premise 1
- If the output of a process is dependent on that process for its existence, then that output must be something different from the input to that process.
- Premise 2
- One's perceptions are the output of the perceptual process and are dependent on that process for their existence.
- Conclusion
- One's perceptions are something different from the input to the perceptual process. »
Link 2
- Premise 1
- » One's perceptions are something different from the input to the perceptual process.
- Premise 2
- The input to the perceptual process is the external world.
- Conclusion
- One's perceptions are not the external world. »
Link 3
- Premise 1
- » One's perceptions are not the external world.
- Premise 2
- One's perceptions together make-up one's perceptual world - the world of one's perceptions.
- Conclusion
- The world of one's perceptions is not the external world. »
Link 4
- Premise 1
- » The world of one's perceptions is not the external world.
- Premise 2
- An experienced world which does not exist external to the mind must exist inside one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories.
- Conclusion
- The world of one's perceptions exists in one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories. »
Link 5
- Premise 1
- » The world of one's perceptions exists in one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories.
- Premise 2
- If the world of one's perceptions exists in one's mind, like the worlds of one's imagination, dreams and memories, then the world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
- Conclusion
- The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
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