What is life's greatest illusion?

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>>1481619

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>>1481627

>>1481619
life itself

>>1481632
I was going to post this.

Free will. If something makes you sad when you see it the first time, why doesn't it make you sad every time you see it? The same situation leads to different results. Clearly, emotions are irrational, and free will is a lie.

>tfw """individuals""" BTFO

>>1482187
lol there are actually explanations for that but yeah totally we don't have free will whatever

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>>1482187
Was going to post free will as well. I'm a pretty staunch determinist.

Could one argue that consciousness is also an illusion? That is, assuming consciousness is purely an emergent phenomena that occurs when matter reaches a certain level of complexity, however that would work...

>>1482196
The book Straw Dogs, by John Gray, argues that consciousness evolved as a side effect from the development of language. The rest of the book isn't as good, but it makes a fantastic point on that specific issue.

>>1482196
why did you post that image fucking teenbro retard

>>1482204
Stop instigating conflicts

>>1482199
Thanks anon, I'll check it out

>>1482204
Don't know how you extrapolated that from an image I chose more or less at random

>>1482206
It might be /qa/, but this is still 4chan, it's inevitable.

>>1482222
The second you let your guard down is the second your board gets overrun with shitposters and teenbros.

>>1481619
I'd say the duality of stuff. Like we all know about dichotomy and shit, but there is so much more to it lol also language is a very bad choice for communication but that's beyond the question.

Ahah topkek

>>1481619
Society, goals etc.
All of them made up by our minds, why not let a kid in the wild? where he can't learn human language and human behaviour, abuse? No we could easily feed the kid without human contact. The truth is that everyone is afraid of real human, a wild human, the animal, really is like

>>1482226
If you read the content of my post, I think it was pretty evident I was not trying to shitpost or worsen the board quality. Not entirely sure what a "teenbro" is but I'm assuming you just mean underage.

No need to get so assmad, dude.

>>1482226
>Persecuting someone in an actual question thread
>On /qa/
>He literally chastises someone for shitposting on a completely unmoderated board where 90% of threads are created by the same three autists starting 50 of the same thread over and over again
>He does this to protect the integrity
>The integrity of /qa/

Le Mao

>>1482246
Who are you quoting?

>>1482247
I'm meta-quoting.

>Legacy Captcha: coondiner weiss

>>1482253
It looks like you are paraphrasing the poster you replied to from your perception of that posters.

The illusion that we humans are important in the grand scheme of things

>>1481619
>>1482288

The illusion that there is a grand scheme

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>>1481619
The illusion that there is an illusion.

Believing you can fly
Believing you can touch the sky
Thinking about it every night and day

Purpose?

>>1482325
I believe I can soar