Solipsism - A Valid Argument?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
(If you don't want to read the whole thing, it's basically when one thinks that the whole world is a created concept, and that nothing is real except oneself.)
I've always been intrigued by this idea and as a kid, I've honestly had a lot of thoughts about this ... I've always wondered if my whole life was a dream and the whole world itself was an imaginary concept created by my own mind, and once I wake up, I'll be in some completely new place/world or something.
I don't know .. I have a lot of weird thoughts. (x
Well anyways, so what do you guys think? True or false? Is this even possible?
May 14, 2012
4 Comments • Newest first
Such is the life of Ash from Pokemon and Frankie from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
[quote=tachyonspd]Only yourself is real at the moment. Everything else is at least a planck time old, because it takes time for events to get to you at the speed limit of the universe, c.
Thus, everything around you is literally in the past, and only you are in the present.[/quote]
This is only from one's perception, however.
[quote=Kazum]Well you can't prove it isn't true.[/quote]
On the contrary, solipsism is far from irrefutable. The proposition "I am the only mind that exists" is proposed in a natural language, which can only exist in a social context. Solipsism is logically incoherent in several other ways as well. It is an interesting idea, though.
Well you can't prove it isn't true.