(December 28, 2015 at 1:13 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(December 27, 2015 at 10:32 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: even though solipsism cannot logically be disproven, in order for the premise to be true, multiple other premises with their own complex explanations must be inserted to reconcile it. How can we be separately both the artist and the audience of our own reality? So, sure, you can never prove solipsism to be false, but it would be a leap to believe it is surely true!
The arguments in favor of solipsism I've encountered were more along the lines of "we can't be sure we aren't brains in a vat, ergo we can't be sure of anything".
Fair enough, yeah. Hey, that's some useful worldview you have there., Mr. Brain-in-a-vat. /sarcasm
On the other hand, taking as axiomatic that solipsism is false is *useful*, and allows us to do useful things - like hanging up on solipsists.
Lol, yeah, at that point why waste energy trying to convince imaginary people of any imaginary concept, like the caller from the video. Or why even get up out of you imaginary bed in the morning?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
