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Solipsism?

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 22:16:57 2020 No.12022924 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12022982 >>12022984 >>12022996 >>12023107 >>12023154

I know this technically ain't /sci/ related, but I just need to see if I can get it cured. It has been been depressing me for the past few days.
>you are the only being in existence
>you are God's video game
>you are the only one

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:31:33 No.12022982 Report

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>>12022924
>It has been been depressing me for the past few days.
Why does it depress you? How would your life be any different if you knew for certain that other beings existed?

The purpose of life is to learn, grow and reach your potential. It's irrelevant if other people are actually 'real' or not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:32:38 No.12022984 Report

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>>12022924
I believe this too atm. It can be depressing and while tripping once it made me nearly go insane. Really though it's just the same life you've always lived and everyone lives looked at from a different angle. The fact is that although you can't know for a fact that anything else exists, you can believe it and be pretty damn sure. Even though I think I technically can't know, I fully believe there's a world outside my consciousness.
Human connection, especially love is how you drive off the existential dread and regain your confidence in the outside world. When i was going nuts in existential agony about this while tripping I had to have my brother come in and sit there with me and immediately I felt tethered to the world again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:33:41 No.12022988 Report

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>>12022982
the purpose of life is actually to die for your country

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:35:22 No.12022996 Report

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>>12022924
>>12022984
Its fucking hilarious reading solopsisfags talk about this shit as another independent conciousness. Solopsism isn't real, get over yourselves. We're all different aspects of the universe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:36:35 No.12023002 Report

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>>12022996
Completely fucked up the spelling of solipsism but my point still stands

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:37:36 No.12023008 Report

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>>12022996
Argument against solipsism?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:38:58 No.12023013 Report

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>>12023008
I for one would very much not like to believe solipsism so I'd like to hear it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:38:59 No.12023014 Report

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>>12022996
>Its fucking hilarious reading solopsisfags talk about this shit as another independent conciousness.
But they're not independent consciousnesses Kevin. Your subconscious mind creates all of us Kevin. We love you, don't wake up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:41:18 No.12023025 Report

Quoted By: >>12023034 >>12023191

Under solopsisim everyone alive would believe they are the one.

The world would fall to shit. It's a terrible idea.

Also everyone reading this knows that I am the one anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:41:42 No.12023027 Report

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>>12023014
You realize that thinking everything outside your perception can't be known to exist independently of you isn't the same as thinking that it doesn't exist?

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:41:59 No.12023028 Report

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>>12023013
>I for one would very much not like to believe solipsism so I'd like to hear it
Why the solipsism hate? How does being the only consciousness in existence make your life any less meaningful? Solipsism is a part of the human condition, no one can know that they aren't alone in the universe. And it doesn't matter anyway - even if other people exist there's no way to share our subjective experiences with them, our thoughts and experiences will always be unique to us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:43:03 No.12023034 Report

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>>12023025
Under solipsism? It's not an economic/governmental/religious doctrine its a philosophical belief

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:45:25 No.12023045 Report

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If you believe, truly believe you are the only being then you have no limits, murder anyone, steal anything from anyone else. They don't really exist except in your mind so what use are they?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:45:44 No.12023046 Report

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>>12023028
If I'm the only consciousness in existence, it would mean i'm completely alone in the most total sense. I don't know if it's conditioning or biology or what, but as a human being I don't much care for that idea

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:46:47 No.12023052 Report

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>>12023045
Again,
believing you can't know if youre the only being =/= believing you're the only being

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:51:10 No.12023072 Report

Quoted By: >>12023079 >>12023093

>>12023027
Solipsism isn't skepticism. OP is a solipsist, he thinks his reality is an illusion and that only his consciousness exists.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:53:17 No.12023079 Report

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>>12023072
Solipsism (/?s?lJpsJz?m/); from Latin solus, meaning 'alone', and ipse, meaning 'self')[1] is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:55:15 No.12023087 Report

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>>12022988
Would you die for Ireland?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:56:02 No.12023093 Report

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>>12023072
I guess there are varieties of which metaphysical solipsism sounds like what you're describing. But OP doesn't mean that one, because the definition in the pic they used is basically the one i just quoted

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:56:48 No.12023098 Report

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>>12023046
>If I'm the only consciousness in existence, it would mean i'm completely alone in the most total sense.
We're all alone. You can never share your thoughts with another person, speech is inadequate. It won't make any difference how many stand around your death bed, you will experience death alone...and yet we're all interconnected and never alone; whether you live in the objective universe or a dream it's all a part of you and you're a part of it.

It's your ego that needs the universe to be 'real'. It's irrelevant, just enjoy the ride.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 22:57:35 No.12023107 Report

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>>12022924
What makes you so fucking special?

Also, none of us really exist. Not you or me. No one and nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:01:02 No.12023121 Report

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>>12023107
that's the same as everything existing

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Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:03:42 No.12023129 Report

Quoted By: >>12023140

>>12023107
Is that a fact?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:06:22 No.12023140 Report

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>>12023129
Is this about NPCs

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:06:35 No.12023143 Report

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>>12022996
Ignore this McChucklefuck. Same mental aptitude as the guy who plasters drywall for a living and thinks slapstick is the pinnacle of sophisticated humor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:09:15 No.12023154 Report

Quoted By: >>12023171

>>12022924
Solipsism is philosophically codified autism. You are not the center of the universe. Embrace realism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:14:00 No.12023171 Report

Quoted By: >>12023176 >>12023190

>>12023154
OP here, and I want to embrace realism, I don't want to be alone, but when I am solitary, my brain seems to turn against me and claim that I'm trapped in some sort of single player video game, or am God's personal camcorder, weird shit like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:15:40 No.12023176 Report

Quoted By: >>12023181

>>12023171
What reason do you have to believe that. I don't get it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:17:12 No.12023181 Report

Quoted By: >>12023189 >>12023477

>>12023176
It's not a voluntary thing. I don't want to think that stuff, but my mind torments me with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:19:17 No.12023189 Report

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>>12023181
what's reason, I asked. I know you're not being genuine but come on, play it up

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:19:37 No.12023190 Report

Quoted By: >>12023381

>>12023171
That's because you have autism. You just can't accept that other people exist, and trying to is causing you to have hallucinations. Maybe stop being so alone. Join an anime club or a larping society or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Aug 2020 23:19:39 No.12023191 Report

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>>12023025
>everyone alive would believe they are the one
missing the point, they dont think, only you do and you cant prove me wrong
>>12023045
thats not how it works, i dont control the police
>>12023107
>none of us
also missing the point
why would anyone besides you be counted as important anyway?

to conclude, its very unlikely that you are the only consciousness, but its impossible to prove, oh well i dont care

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Aug 2020 00:14:25 No.12023381 Report

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>>12023190
Well, you sure debunked it for me, because no loving simulation designer would create a cunt like you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Aug 2020 00:44:57 No.12023477 Report

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>>12023181
You can't even give a reason?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Aug 2020 16:52:03 No.12025466 Report

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