Do you believe in object permanence?
By RisaAttrell
@RisaAttrell (418)
Canada
December 2, 2010 11:23am CST
If nobody is there to see something, does it still exist? For example, say you get out of bed in the morning and leave your bedroom? Nobody else is in the bedroom now. You walk away from your bedroom so now neither you or anybody else is there to see your bedroom. Does your bedroom still exist? Does anything exist if there is nobody there to see it?
Now you may think that of course something exists even if nobody is there to see it. But how can you prove that??
1 response
@narayan2006 (2954)
• India
2 Dec 10
A person's blindness or lack of vision does not disprove the existence of an object.Presence or absence of one object or person does not necessarily prove the absence or presence of some other object. Incapability to see the objects inside a dark room does not make the objects inside the room non-existent. Images of objects seen due to mental hallucination are not real but illusory. Seeing or not seeing a object does not prove the existence of some object.
@RisaAttrell (418)
• Canada
2 Dec 10
I see what you're saying, however that is not exactly my question. Imagine that nobody is around to see, hear, smell or touch the object. The object is not being experienced by any of the senses by any person or animal. Let's use the 'tree in the forest' analogy-imagine there is a tree in a lonely forest-nobody is there for miles on end. No person and no animal. There is nobody there to see, or touch that tree. Is there any way to prove that tree still exists?
