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This is silly. Everything exists “only in our brains”. The ancient Greeks knew this - see Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.



The article says this (and pretty much all the other comments here).

It doesn't however mention James Clerk Maxwell who took a break from inventing equations to torture EE students forever to figure this stuff out, including making the first color photograph.

(Yes I know Heaviside actually came up with the equations we use)


You don't only exist in my brain.


That sounds like something one of Plato's cave dwellers would say.


Are you sure about that?


Are you just a text message? I don't think my brain generates all the text messages in the internet, it isn't that creative.




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