Can one really experience solipsism? — Caldwell
While I do not disagree, somehow it leaves me a feeling of dissatisfaction from the understanding that we are shifting the philosophical nature of solipsism (as a matter of principle) to a psychological one. Not that I disagree with talking about solipsism in the psychological sense. But that I find that we can't even justify talking about it philosophically even if we try. Does this make sense?So in practice, empathy - which is 'the ability to understand and share the feelings of another' - is an obvious antidote to solipsism, and suggestive also of a philosophical answer to the challenge. — Wayfarer
Philosophically, I am a solipsist and a panpsychist.
Some clarification: empathy is a subject of psychology. Or please enlighten me what philosopher has used empathy to argue about the nature of reality or perception. — Caldwell
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/Empathy and the Philosophical Problem of Other Minds — SEP
So in practice, empathy - which is 'the ability to understand and share the feelings of another' - is an obvious antidote to solipsism, and suggestive also of a philosophical answer to the challenge. — Wayfarer
As per solipsisim p-zombies are possible. Were they not, solipsisim has no leg to stand on. — Agent Smith
If anyone proves anything to anyone else, then solipsism is false. — Cuthbert
Ok, pfirefry, if solipsism is true, then either you're a bot or I am. I'm not. How 'bout you? — Cuthbert
We can't know if other minds exist and not that we know other minds don't exist. ........enough room in there to have a meaningful conversation or some semblance of it, no — Agent Smith
But what I am trying to get at is this though, is the argument the guy posted right or was I correct in my questioning of it. Philosophy is my weak point but even I could see the rest of his post isn't consistent with solipsism. — TerraHalcyon
But there cannot be 7 billion solipsists, by definition. — TerraHalcyon
It honestly sounded like a VERY roundabout view of realism, or a version of it. — TerraHalcyon
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