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Is Solipsism Disprovable?
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Their are theories that the human brain imagines everything. The brain tells the eyes what to see potentially according to some theories. This theory could be simialar and say that everybody is a figment of your imagination.
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This rheiry cnat can't be possible. The human brain may not have enouph power generally speaking to imagine all other people. Also, this could interfere with environment settings.
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"[I can't accept quantum mechanics because] "I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it." Einstein
http://quantumenigma.com/nutshell/notable-quotes-on-quantum-physics/
Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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On this basis you can't assume you have eyes or even a brain.
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I believe solipsism is imagining what's around you, like humans beings.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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If I'm wrong--if I am only a brain in a vat--I can't think of how I could ever know it, or what I could do about it, so I don't waste much time worrying about it. Treating the external world as real seems to be working so far...
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How can you know any message is true? How can you know an omnipotent God is not lying to you?
How can you know you have not suffered some brain trauma and are not hallucinating this message?
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God says so.
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How can you know any message you receive is actually coming from God, and not some other powerful being (Satan)?
And your answer is "God says so"
So a voice tells you something, saying it's God, and you believe it. You never consider that it might be Satan?
I asked:
How can you know any message is true? How can you know an omnipotent God is not lying to you?
And your answer is "God says so"
The Bible clearly says God can and does mislead humans, but you never consider that possibility?
I asked:
How can you know you have not suffered some brain trauma and are not hallucinating this message?
And your answer is "God says so"
So any time you hear voices or see things--even wild, strange, crazy things--you just assume it's God?
This leads to a rather disturbing question. Why did God tell Dena Schlosser to dismember and kill her baby?
By your own claims, if anyone hears God telling them something, it's from God. So why would He command such a thing? Before you answer, could you check with God first, so I can get His answer through you? I'd like to verify that whatever you tell me is coming from God. I mean... that's how you get all your knowledge.
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This is not your fault. I've asked dozens of people these questions and not a single one has ever made even the tiniest effort to answer it. That's not typical Internet hyperbole. Not a single Christian who parrots the presupp script has made the slightest attempt to answer.
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You can be the very first to even make the feeblest attempt.
How can you know any message you receive is actually coming from God, and not some other powerful being (Satan)?
How can you know any message is true? How can you know an omnipotent God--one who admits in the Bible that he sometimes deceives humans--is not lying to you?
How can you know you have not suffered some brain trauma and are not hallucinating this message?
You will never answer those questions.
Never.
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The problem with pagans is they they make themselves the measure of reality, which is proof they are mentally ill and morally reprobate.
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Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by regarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically.
- David Ricardo
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Could you provide his argument for us?
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Fair enough.
Descartes started by thinking that an evil demon was attempting to make him think that he could trust nothing.
C1: You cannot prove, for instance, that an apple is real given that the demon could just be manipulating your senses into thinking that the apple was real
P1: However, it can only do so if you do actually exist - you cannot be persuaded that nothing is real if you do not exist.
C2: Therefore, it logically follows that you do actually exist and as such that the evidence of your senses is true
P2: Solipsism is absurd.
Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by regarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically.
- David Ricardo
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Where is this coming from? Everything up to this statement was pretty valid, but you make a pretty large jump here.
I don't follow.
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Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by regarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically.
- David Ricardo
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Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by regarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically.
- David Ricardo
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Solipsism states that, since our perceptions are limited by our mind, we cannot interact with anything outside of this mind, and hence nothing beside it exists in our world. The mind exists objectively (otherwise, one could not invoke the concept of "existence"), and everything else is simply a product of the mind generating our perceptions.
Objectivism, on the other hand, states that the objective world exists independent of our mind, and that our mind affects how we perceive that world, but does not define that world and does not contradict its existence.
According to solipsism, when we die, the world dies. According to objectivism, when we die, our mind turns off, but the world keeps on existing. Experimentally it is impossible to test, since in either case our mind ceases to function at the moment of death. It is a philosophical distinction, but not a practical one.
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However, it is important to not that the philosophical distinction can reflect our values. A solipsist that believes that the world dies with them might not care about the future of the world after their death (since there will be no world left, from their perspective), so they might make decisions that could have horrible consequences were the world to continue existing - for example, initiating a nuclear war shortly before death to entertain oneself with a beautiful sight of mushrooms on the horizon at the last moments. An objectivist believes that the world will keep existing after their death, and will not commit such an act, because they probably care about the future of the world more and do not want to damage it.
I tend to be more on the solipsist side in this regard ("Doesn't matter what happens after I die, since it won't affect my mind"), however I still care about the future of the world - if from a philosophical perspective, rather than a practical one. I know that what happens after my death will mean nothing to me, but it means something to those around me, and, in turn, their well-being matters to me right now - so I cannot throw the future of the world out of the equation completely.
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