Duncecap Posted:

Write this on a slip of paper:

“Here is a thought”

Then read the piece of paper: Is it a thought? Does it exist without a mind to hold it?

A much better example from modern times: The computer. It can take a thought, replicate it, and send it to other computers, and even to paper.

Does the computer hold a mind, and if so, then from whence is the mind?

Now, if computers can continually create thoughts, then can there exist a mindless state that can create and be a progenitor of thoughts?

The state of a thought without a mind, and even of transmitting and creating thoughts, seems to me to be a simple idea to grasp, given familiarity with todays technology.

What you’re talking about is Existentialism, and some people do indeed believe that nothing exists if it is not being perceived.

Of course, this runs into the crippling fact that the Big Bang theory invalidates this, since there was NOTHING before it, therefore, nothing existed to perceive it, yet it still came into being.

Either the Big Bang theory is wrong, or Perceptive Existentialism is. The two are hugely incompatible.