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Originally Posted by Do0rDoNot
The representation of whatever the sun is, is small enough to fit in your head.
Representations of the sun are in my head, and depend for their existence on my head existing. Agreed. Stop arguing for something we already agree about. Here's the claim we don't agree about. The sun itself - the giant, blazing hot, 864,337 mile-wide ball of gas is also in my head and so depends for its existence on my head existing. That I don't agree with.
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I ask again, prove that you have an experience of "the sun" beyond what's going on in your brain.
Nah, I can't prove the existence of an external world. I also can't prove the existence of an internal world, of other minds, of moral rules, of god, of the self, of immortality or mortality, of the laws of logic, mathematics, or really just about anything except perhaps perceptions happening.
Nonetheless, I believe in some of these things and not in others of them. One thing I believe in is the existence of the sun as a giant gasball in space approximately 93,000,000 miles away and that it is way too big to fit inside my head.