I’ve heard people wonder:
What do we find out? “What do you mean by that?”
Then ask for evidence, “How did you come to that conclusion?”
Listen and ask follow-up questions. (Remember the mean face with covered ears and the magnifying glass.)
Ask: If the universe can be either real or illusionary, how is it that a real person exists within an illusion?
What is the truth? Does the universe exist? Let’s look at it logically.
Something that seems to exist but doesn’t really exist is called an illusion. Illusions may be either “false illusions” or “real illusions”. We just determined that we exist when we addressed the question “Do I exist?” We exist and we do so within our universe, also called "the cosmos". Since real entities exist within the cosmos, then the cosmos cannot be a real illusion because the entity is within and part of the cosmos while perceiving it. Therefore, “the cosmos is an illusion” is illogical and the opposite is in this case true: the universe does exist.
My suggested syllogism is:
Real entities can only exist within something that is real.
Our universe contains real entities.
Therefore, our universe is real.
Is the universe real?
We can know the universe is real because real entities (us) can only exist within something real rather than something only imagined.
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