The subject. I’m shocked so many people claim to be able to tell reality from illusion apart.
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Oh man I whole heartedly agree. I could go on for ages about it. But it’s gets me in a weird none-of-this-is-real-so-I-have-to-transcend-this-made-up-reality mood anddddd then I don’t make the best decisions. At least not in my familiar reality because I’m in search of another reality beyond my own thoughts. I end up pushing to the outer realm of thought/consciousness and I’ve let some wild stuff in by doing so. I don’t recommend. Now my realities are completely mixed up and I can’t help but feel pulled to those other places.
Solipsism is a topic I do quite like to think about theoretically though, so that way I don’t get too close and caught up in it.
Like the science behind the idea.
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I’m always amazed at what others think is real. How can the eyes determine anything when they see so different.
How good is interpretation to real?
Illusions as they are, are more realistic.
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There are plenty theories about reality and not. One of them I think is true is that we are in simulation, like matrix but not for energy, but for studying alternative species - us humans.
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Why would a we be discussing solipsism…?
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I often thought there were parallels with schizophrenia and certain philosophical theories and/or thought experiments and solipsism ie. the idea that only the self exists is certainly one of these concepts. I mean, we retreat into a fantasy world. Into an illusion. We question the very nature of existence: metaphysics. We question accepted truths: epistemology. Cogito ergo sum. I think therefore I am. How do we know what we know? Why do we believe what we believe? It seems somewhere along the path of philosophical inquiry we take a left turn and become entirely lost in our reflections.
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The methodological aspect of your question is easily answered: we’re constrained by language, as Wittgenstein famously put it “the limits of my language are the limits of my world”. So a “we” rather than an “I” would be a good tentative first approach. On a more ontological level, it begs the question to limit (or wantonly expand) the predicament and topology of this “I”. How do we reconcile a solipsist self with the apparent reality of other minds? In other posts I have advanced some possible answers. The important thing is that for a class of mentally ill people supposedly plagued by issues of “self-disturbance” solipsism provides plenty of foundational ground.
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It’s precisely those parallels that make, in my view, the question so pertinent.
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More realistic, and perhaps, the sole reality.
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You’re in a continuous performative contradiction. There is no point in discussing solipsism for its truth undermines the meaningfulness of discussing it, and therefore its truth too. It’s self-defeating, ( in my mind 
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It would be a case of psychosis along with gaslighting,
It all depends on the what the ultimate nature of the “others” (whose reality I question) is.
Gaslighting why?
It pops up all the time, at first i thought it was just me then I noticed when coming into contact with other voice hearers that it is a very common thing to occur within our experince, this also occurs a lot when you try to re-enter the work place enviroment.
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I think it’s common to think your end is all there is. Not sure it’s too much of a stretch even for us but I’ve found schizophrenics are like people who take acid…especially if psychotic.
You know someone on acid is off kilter with the rest and you can pick it. Drugs. With sz. You know they aren’t making too much sense if psychotic but if your like a doctor you can pick it pretty easily. It’s funny how delusions and positives travel along similar lines…
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It can also heighten your aware to things like veiled attacks or of hidden abuses that maybe going on within your local enviroment due to the circustances.
Crazy is as crazy does. Not much hidden and abuse is a strong word. It’s just what it is. Sorry you have a problem…that might be a better target to try. Peace.
You can still predict it though !
I thought I might add this to the debate as a perspective of considerable, hitherto ignored, theological promise.
Solipsism, Cartesian Theater, Brain-in-a-Vat
To amend them it wouldn’t be just you or I - you would also have at least one antagonist hosting the show and I’m pretty sure a few other subjects; no one would waste this effort on just one person.
Now as for Solipisism referring to ‘no one outside of us’ because we might be god and all of this ‘a prop to occupy our time’ (see: Breakfast of Champions or Zero Theorem ) I wouldn’t buy into that either - it was the last head shrink used by the Illumanati in attempts to turn Number 2 in McGoohan’s ‘The Prisoner’ series and it does seem like a sure-fire way to assimilate and synchronize a large group of people to one other person’s will ( ie; Nazi soliders )
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