<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re assuming any of this has an existence independent of your mind, that more than the present moment exists, and a whole lot of other things.&lt;p&gt;You make reasonable assumptions, but &lt;i&gt;proving&lt;/i&gt; them is hard, because any attempt you make to prove them still end up being filtered through your potentially unreliable senses.&lt;p&gt;In practice we decide to just accept that a material world with semireliable senses exists, because the alternative is no certainty at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nefitty</author><text>Lamp lights are not dependent on whether you can see them or not, unless they are programmed to.&lt;p&gt;The state of an individual person’s consciousness has no bearing on whether the sun is shining or not.&lt;p&gt;Refrigerator lights turn off when the door closes. It’s usually easy to find the mechanism that handles this and manually trigger the light to switch off.&lt;p&gt;Regarding God, I assume you mean the Abrahamic god. There are many culturally specific deities and superstitions and there doesn’t seem to be any verifiable reason why one would be “realer” than any other.</text></item><item><author>nnamtr</author><text>- Is the lamp still on while blinking?
- Is the sun still shining during a nap?
- Is the fridge&amp;#x27;s light still on while it&amp;#x27;s closed?
- Does God exist?&lt;p&gt;Some fundamental questions, but we&amp;#x27;ll never be able to find an answer.</text></item><item><author>stavros</author><text>I once figured that you don&amp;#x27;t need light in your house if your eyes are closed, and I hooked up blink detection to my smart bulbs:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xzcdopwq7ok&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xzcdopwq7ok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It actually worked really well, I couldn&amp;#x27;t perceive the room being dark at all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink</title><url>https://realless.glitch.me/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pieshop</author><text>The problem with this argument is that it&amp;#x27;s begging the question.  You&amp;#x27;re assuming that the Universe is behaving in a way that is consistent with how it appears.&lt;p&gt;There is no possible experiment you could in principle do to verify that the universe stays the same when you&amp;#x27;re not looking.  We can say that the universe behaves consistently as though it does, and I&amp;#x27;m not saying that doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, but it&amp;#x27;s not quite the same thing.  Furthermore we can&amp;#x27;t tell whether the universe is tricking us some of the time, or all of the time, or never.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nefitty</author><text>Lamp lights are not dependent on whether you can see them or not, unless they are programmed to.&lt;p&gt;The state of an individual person’s consciousness has no bearing on whether the sun is shining or not.&lt;p&gt;Refrigerator lights turn off when the door closes. It’s usually easy to find the mechanism that handles this and manually trigger the light to switch off.&lt;p&gt;Regarding God, I assume you mean the Abrahamic god. There are many culturally specific deities and superstitions and there doesn’t seem to be any verifiable reason why one would be “realer” than any other.</text></item><item><author>nnamtr</author><text>- Is the lamp still on while blinking?
- Is the sun still shining during a nap?
- Is the fridge&amp;#x27;s light still on while it&amp;#x27;s closed?
- Does God exist?&lt;p&gt;Some fundamental questions, but we&amp;#x27;ll never be able to find an answer.</text></item><item><author>stavros</author><text>I once figured that you don&amp;#x27;t need light in your house if your eyes are closed, and I hooked up blink detection to my smart bulbs:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xzcdopwq7ok&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xzcdopwq7ok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It actually worked really well, I couldn&amp;#x27;t perceive the room being dark at all.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink</title><url>https://realless.glitch.me/</url></story>