Philosophy

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.

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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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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There is no escape from the subjective and the only key to survival is self advocacy. Still, the tribe has great meaning.

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Beautiful way of putting it. 
The salute reinforces autonomy, yet acknowledges that existence relies on the other.

This is a great answer.

We are trapped in this subjective sensory interface with the world that we call a body, yet we yearn for objective and universal truths beyond ourselves.

We are a gregarious species, and yet we are ultimately alone as agents of our own survival.

The most foundational dichotomies of all