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@aviationdoctor.eth

Where do you stand on solipsism? I see it as foundational to virtually everything else (in a first principles kind of way), and yet it is almost universally brushed aside as irrelevant, which I find oddly frustrating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

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Is it brushed aside as irrelevant, or as “wrong”? One problem with solipsism (still basic understanding here) is the perhaps-too-easy settling into individualism, selfishness, basically denial of the Other.

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I’m not a philosophy scholar, but it doesn’t seem foundational to everything else. No offense. Unless your view on solipsism extends to inanimate objects, what single species flora or fauna remotely exists outside community?

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I'm curious why you think its "foundational to everything else"? I was never able to derive much use from it. To me it's a bit like the Simulation Hypothesis. It's cute but has no impact whatsoever on how one should live their life.

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I tend more towards a contemporary quantum/panpsychist view.

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I don't think we need to be specific w/ solipsism, but philosophy should be taught in school. Teach kids how to think about big picture ideas

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Solipsism unnecessarily complicates reality by asserting that external experiences are merely internal thoughts, adhering to the same rules as realism but with added, unwarranted assumptions. Essentially, it's a convoluted version of realism, adding complexity without offering a more accurate understanding of the world

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It's a hot topic right now in consciousness research. It makes sense that it's been shunned by Enlightenment era hyper-materialist schools of thought. I expect were going to see the pendulum start to swing back in the next 10-15 years.

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I was once obsessed with solipsism. Camu provided some context to its practical existence. The Myth of Sisyphus. The Stranger. Dostoyevsky also, tbh. Crime and Punishment.

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It's a nice theory, but it's overshadowed by better parallels such as plato's cave or simulation theory. The idea that everything exists in the mind needs a basis. It could be eg. Possible if we assume the environment that contains or runs the mind is artificial and not self sovereign.

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Nihilist dead alley. Completely rational but useless, you might as well kill yourself.

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I don’t think we can trust our own perception all the time. The mind plays tricks with illusions.

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Not a fan. Plays too much on the ego and subjectiveness as a frame of existence.

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TIL, thank you. Could you share your thoughts on this, a little more.

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I think there’s real Truth in the fact that we can’t escape our reality tunnels. But I agree with the Buddhists that we can’t even say our minds exist. Pay close enough attention and the self disappears. Even solipsism is nondual.

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it's a fun philosophical exercise until you realize its (un)ethical implications, like the disregard for others' realities

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I like to bring it up to people once awhile when relevant to conversation. I feel it is a blessing to ponder the mysteries of life together.

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Thinking about it everyday

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My heart is the universe.

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