Do ideas exist?

>>2228463
Ideas are a spook.

>>2228463

Ideas are more real than physical objects.

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when an idea enters your brain doesn't it become slightly heavier?

>>2228482

No. Information is stored as patterns of brain activity. No additional weight is added, new patterns just emerge. It's like how if you're playing scrabble and add a new word using your letter pieces. No new pieces were added, it's just that you applied the pieces you already had to introduce a new pattern.

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Fuck off old man

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>Plato and Aristotle take center stage in the painting, and for good reason. They are without question the two most important and influential ancient philosophers, perhaps even the most important philosophers of all time. Plato (c. 428-347 BC, pictured on the left in red) was an Athenian student of Socrates. Here he is depicted with his hand pointing upwards, a symbol of his claim that ultimate reality (the Forms) lies beyond what we experience. He holds a copy of his work, Timaeus, a treatise on the origin of the world. Aristotle (384-322 BC), a student of Plato, was born in northern Greece. He holds a copy of his Ethics while describing the earth and the wide realm of moral teaching with his extended hand in an elegant horizontal gesture. Aristotle thought that the ordinary empirical world is 'more real' than Plato's world of Forms. Both philosophers wrote extensively on a wide array of topics that has guided virtually all subsequent western philosophy even to this day. No educated individual should be completely ignorant of the contributions of Plato and Aristotle to western culture.

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>rationalism

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>>2228494
But you are wrong. My hard drive gained two lbs over the last six months.

>>2228521
obviously the force of gravity is increasing where you live

>>2228521

You have to prove the two lbs came from ideas.