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Non-existence
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RE: Non-existence
(August 10, 2009 at 10:31 pm)Jon Paul Wrote: That is not a necessary premise for solipsism, no. All it states is that your conscious mind exists, and it's conscious experience. It doesn't state that anything that falls outside your actual conscious experience exists even in your mind, because to state that would be unverifiable. And since it doesn't state that your sense-data exists independently of your conscious experience, the sense data itself, even if it was much larger than it is, will always be less complex than an actually existing reality, since sense data contains and records less than actually exists according to realism.

The reality itself would be less complex, but not the whole system. Of course, if all I'd ever seen in my life was my bedroom, it would be much simpler to say my bedroom is all that exists than to say a universe exists outside of it. But the difference is that (like Kyuu said) the idea of a universe offers one or two layers of complexity to exist, whereas a conscious mind upholding its experience of a universe it created adds whole new layers of baffling complexity to the system as a whole.

With solipsism I can go as far as to say my mind is real and what I cosciously experience is real in one form or another. After this, the assumptions I base my life on are not to do with solipsism as such, but stem from an Occam's razor decision of which scenario is the least complex/most probable. With my confirmed conscious mind I can go on to conclude that if my mind is all that exists, it must have greater levels of complexity to process the experiences I have had than whatever complexity an objective universe has. By no means am I claiming this to be verifiable. Just a foundation built up from the first premise.

Jon Paul Wrote:Not according to the doctrine of divine simplicity, the orthodox Christian understanding of God, which explicitly states that God is the simplest possible being, and that all his attributes are identical to his being, and that the universe is more complex than God.

Thinking
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Non-existence - by dagda - July 31, 2009 at 11:07 am
RE: Non-existence - by Giff - July 31, 2009 at 11:19 am
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - July 31, 2009 at 2:00 pm
RE: Non-existence - by binny - July 31, 2009 at 4:43 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - July 31, 2009 at 5:21 pm
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 1, 2009 at 5:28 am
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 1, 2009 at 2:17 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Pippy - August 2, 2009 at 1:32 am
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 2, 2009 at 3:42 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 2, 2009 at 3:38 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 3, 2009 at 1:11 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 5, 2009 at 7:41 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 5, 2009 at 7:52 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 2, 2009 at 5:42 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Pippy - August 3, 2009 at 4:56 am
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 3, 2009 at 10:58 am
RE: Non-existence - by Pippy - August 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 3, 2009 at 9:39 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Pippy - August 4, 2009 at 7:33 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 5, 2009 at 2:20 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 5, 2009 at 2:41 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Ryft - August 6, 2009 at 3:33 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 6, 2009 at 3:44 am
RE: Non-existence - by Ryft - August 6, 2009 at 6:23 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 6, 2009 at 7:12 am
RE: Non-existence - by Ryft - August 6, 2009 at 7:31 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 6, 2009 at 8:16 am
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 7, 2009 at 10:09 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 7, 2009 at 5:30 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 8, 2009 at 10:11 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 6, 2009 at 2:28 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 6, 2009 at 4:09 pm
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 9, 2009 at 3:58 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 10, 2009 at 6:47 am
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 11:50 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 10, 2009 at 2:28 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 3:35 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 10, 2009 at 4:10 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 5:04 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 10, 2009 at 5:15 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 10, 2009 at 5:23 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 5:34 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 10, 2009 at 5:51 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 10, 2009 at 5:54 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 6, 2009 at 3:13 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 7, 2009 at 8:29 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 8, 2009 at 2:45 am
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 8, 2009 at 9:25 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Ryft - August 8, 2009 at 8:10 am
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 8, 2009 at 9:32 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 8, 2009 at 10:00 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 8, 2009 at 9:54 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 8, 2009 at 10:00 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 9, 2009 at 11:36 am
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 10, 2009 at 5:37 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 5:59 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 10, 2009 at 6:42 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 7:49 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 10, 2009 at 8:35 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 8:46 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 10, 2009 at 8:57 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 9:08 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 10, 2009 at 9:34 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 10, 2009 at 10:31 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 11, 2009 at 8:22 am
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 12:08 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 10, 2009 at 7:16 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 11, 2009 at 3:15 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 3:25 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 11, 2009 at 4:09 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 8, 2009 at 10:38 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 8, 2009 at 10:56 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Dotard - August 9, 2009 at 9:25 am
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 9, 2009 at 11:39 am
RE: Non-existence - by Ryft - August 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 10, 2009 at 12:19 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 11, 2009 at 12:28 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 2:30 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 11, 2009 at 2:32 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 2:34 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 11, 2009 at 2:53 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 3:38 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 3:40 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 11, 2009 at 4:15 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 4:28 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 11, 2009 at 4:55 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 5:09 pm
RE: Non-existence - by LukeMC - August 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 11, 2009 at 5:39 pm
RE: Non-existence - by omjag86 - August 11, 2009 at 3:39 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 11, 2009 at 4:15 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 11, 2009 at 5:51 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 6:01 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 11, 2009 at 6:18 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 6:27 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 12, 2009 at 1:02 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 12, 2009 at 2:49 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 12, 2009 at 4:08 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 11, 2009 at 6:00 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 12, 2009 at 4:01 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 12, 2009 at 4:27 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 12, 2009 at 4:37 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 12, 2009 at 4:53 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 12, 2009 at 5:16 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 12, 2009 at 5:28 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 12, 2009 at 5:35 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 12, 2009 at 5:56 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 13, 2009 at 1:57 am
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 12, 2009 at 7:25 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 12, 2009 at 8:07 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 12, 2009 at 8:15 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 12, 2009 at 8:32 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 12, 2009 at 11:51 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 13, 2009 at 12:17 am
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 11, 2009 at 6:53 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 7:32 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 12, 2009 at 4:15 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 11, 2009 at 8:14 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 11, 2009 at 8:49 pm
RE: Non-existence - by theVOID - August 13, 2009 at 12:40 am
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 13, 2009 at 11:36 am
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 13, 2009 at 1:12 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 13, 2009 at 1:37 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 13, 2009 at 1:45 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Rhizomorph13 - August 13, 2009 at 5:07 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 13, 2009 at 5:26 pm
RE: Non-existence - by theVOID - August 13, 2009 at 5:21 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 13, 2009 at 5:33 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 14, 2009 at 4:22 am
RE: Non-existence - by Jon Paul - August 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 14, 2009 at 4:10 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 14, 2009 at 2:34 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 15, 2009 at 5:18 am
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 15, 2009 at 9:51 am
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 22, 2009 at 9:24 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 23, 2009 at 7:02 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 20, 2009 at 7:06 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 20, 2009 at 7:12 am
RE: Non-existence - by Tiberius - August 20, 2009 at 10:59 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 21, 2009 at 9:10 am
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 20, 2009 at 12:47 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Tiberius - August 20, 2009 at 12:53 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Edwardo Piet - August 20, 2009 at 12:58 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Tiberius - August 21, 2009 at 9:19 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 21, 2009 at 3:10 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 22, 2009 at 3:09 pm
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 23, 2009 at 4:27 am
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 23, 2009 at 6:47 am
RE: Non-existence - by Violet - August 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 23, 2009 at 5:06 pm
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - August 30, 2009 at 6:05 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - August 30, 2009 at 7:34 am
RE: Non-existence - by Ryft - September 4, 2009 at 5:56 am
RE: Non-existence - by dagda - September 9, 2009 at 4:53 am
RE: Non-existence - by Kyuuketsuki - September 9, 2009 at 6:25 am

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