title: From the terrible loneliness to the wonderful agreement of human beings.
abstract: What would be the "terrible loneliness" and what would be the "wonderful agreement" in the present paper? The "terrible loneliness" is the only reality that a person perceives and/or thinks during the now going on. For the person, an enormous quantity of occurrences is in the present moment absent. A very small quantity of occurrences is present. The person is the only being in having this. And, this is only during a little moment. The person never thinks about his loneliness in this moment. On the contrary, he thinks he is plenty of people and full of occurrences. But, if he were thinking about reality, he would live in a terrible loneliness. How does he escape himself from this loneliness? He thinks that the probable occurrences are real occurrences. He may be right in a plenty of times. Going through what I call opening hypotheses--basic hypotheses and non-basic but important hypotheses--and going through what I call simply hypotheses he is able to sanction a wonderful agreement of human beings about the known parts of the Universe. However, they are hypotheses, not absolute realities.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. arno.engelmann@gmail.com
authors.forename: Arno
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Engelmann
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008132:Loneliness; D010465:Perception; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013850:Thinking