>>13894015>How do we know the brain is real? The senses tell us it is, but the brain sees through the senses and the senses tell us that it is so. The empirical input really really really looks as if it was generated by an external world obeying some physical laws, which we are not able to efficiently simulate in real time even remotely and also are not able to influence directly with our thought to any detectable degree. One exercise I recommend you to do is to learn how to do lucid dreaming, it will show you how easy it is to tell apart constructs of your mind from reality.
If I was to entertain the possibility of solipsism, I would have to assign it probability 1/(10^(something astronomically huge). Now, assigning it probability 0 would technically be dogmatic on my part, but if I went around and distinguished between 0 and e^-HUGE on every issue, I would go crazy. I dont want to go crazy, so I just say "external world exists, lets study it".
>The only thing that separates the two is that one is more useful than the other, God had his uses but once society was established through the unification around his teachings, we cast him aside and replaced him with empiricismExcept that this idea makes no sense and doesnt even describe the last 1000 years of human history, let alone anything like the history of human civilization. Civilizations rose and fell independently and had radically different beliefs each time. There is no criterion to tell me to believe the words of Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata and Ramayana or Torah or Bible(of which there isnt even an original text) or Greek mythos(which is just a hodge podge of contradictory stories) or whatever else.
>>13894083Based.
