(September 17, 2016 at 5:51 pm)Rhythm Wrote: That's an awfully generous exemption you've made for yourself in what will invariably be a stingy relationship with another.
That you (and jorg, lol) are both conscious is well beyond an assumption, in my opinion. Retreat into the black box of solipsism at will.
I'm not a solipsist. I've taken my pill, whatever color it is, and accept that others are conscious. However, this is not a rational position, nor one founded on any rational position. I just grew up thinking of people as thinking agents, and once I realized that wasn't necessarily the case, I thought about it for about 3 seconds, and said: "Meh. . . talking to people is more fun if I think they are thinking about what I'm saying."
