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

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.