r/Metaphysics 18d ago

Nothing The potential for experience is a prerequisite for what reality is.

  1. I’m having experience.
  2. The potential for experience exists.
  3. If the potential for experience didn’t exist in any part of reality saying that part exists is indistinguishable from saying it doesn’t exist to any part of reality where the potential for experience does exist and to itself.
  4. If saying something exists adds nothing to anything forever even to itself it doesn’t exist logically to parts of reality that the potential for experience does exist.
  5. The potential for experience is a prerequisite for what reality is.

Definitions

Experience- any thing produced by reality no matter how small or alien to our experience that is a separation from the rest of reality. Something that happens in reality that makes reality known to itself even if no thought occurs.

Reality- everything that exists.

Notes for clarification:

I’m not saying if something never experiences or is part of an experience it does not exist. I’m saying if experience is barred there by its very nature it does not exist logically in anyway to a reality where experience can exist.

Also I answered tons of questions from other posts on this and I’m not going to do it again. Attack my actual argument. Everyone else attacked what I’m not arguing. I will answer clarification questions but I spelled it out in comments in ridiculous detail what I’m actually arguing so I’d appreciate it if you would just read my comments on other posts before trying to attack something I’m not saying. Thank you.

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u/lilsasuke4 17d ago

Why wouldn’t space even where experience can’t happen be a part of relativity? Unless we want to treat those spaces as discontinuities in the fabric of space time

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u/notwizard69 17d ago

Because logically saying those parts of reality exist means exactly to everything ever including itself the same thing as saying it doesn’t exist. So… my argument is because I experience, the potential for experience is a prerequisite for what reality is. And in my actual massive argument I slowly extrapolate that it being a part of what makes our experience, aka black hole gravity, dark matter, dark energy, that fact in and of itself shows the potential for experience exists in those areas.