Thread: All Things are Imaginary

Originally Posted by thegnome54

I've actually reached similar conclusions myself - the key to the concept is the word 'things'.

Your analysis this far is largely in keeping with what I'm saying. It also suggests a change in your standing on whether "All is one," if I'm not mistaken.

Originally Posted by thegnome54

In this way, every 'thing' is imaginary, but some of them are imaginary on a completely different level. If humans ceased to exist, the matter of the MRI machines, and the way in which it interacts with the rest of the matter in the universe, would still be there. Dragons, however, would completely disappear - the only traces of them are in human minds.

Dragon has produced many, many more physical artifacts than Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and will likely continue to do so long after MRI has gone the way of leeching. Dragons are a thing we invented from elements we found in the world, as are MRIs. Again, the question is not, "Does it exist?" but "What is it?"

Taosaur...

1. How did consciousness come into existence if it is impossible for there to be anything without it?

2. Is the nonexistence of God real? We can conceptualize it.