@Alan McDougall,
Alan McDougall;97836 wrote:As far as you are concerned in you were to vanish, both you and the universe are no more
Maybe the universe is just an illusion of your vivid imagination and this post is just you debating with yourself
"So far as I am concerned" is not the way it is. Before I was born, there was no world, "so far as I was concerned". But there was a world, nevertheless.
What makes you think the world is my imagination? And it that were so, where would I be? What is logically possible need not be really possible. It is logically possible that there is a Spaghetti Monster flying around, but it isn't (really) possible. Yes, even in philosophy, you have to make sense. For something to be possible, there has to be some reason to believe it. Have you any reason to believe that the world is a product of my imagination? Of course not.