Status Updates From The Non-Existence of the Re...

“The statement that there is a red apple in front of me is true if the virtual world I am located in contains a simulated red apple in a suitable simulated spatial relation relative to the simulated me [to the irrealist].”

. the perception of an external object, an orange, say, takes place when something external stimulates our nerve-endings by contact with different sensory organs, these then pass the stimuli on to the brain where a perception of the orange including its various visual, olfactory, tactile, and perhaps auditory aspects are put together.This perception is part of the virtual model of the world in which we live our lives

“Practically all epistemological theories taken seriously by philosophers involve reference to the external world at a crucial place. This is not an accident. It seems that to explain how we can have any knowledge of the things we think we know, we need to postulate the existence of external objects.”

Philosophical debates about the external world usually arise in the context of epistemology. Such debates concern the question to which extent our beliefs about the external world are justified or by what routes we could achieve knowledge of the external world. . . . . I am concerned with the ontological problem of the external world, i.e. with the question of whether there is such a thing in the first place.