(September 12, 2014 at 6:24 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It's the same thing as with the Matrix idea. Even if the Ultimate Truth turns out to be that we're all part of a giant computer simulation, or that nothing is real beyond the confines of your or my head, we still have to deal with the reality as it is presented to us. We still need to eat and drink and shit several times a day. The simplest course, embracing Occam's Razor, is to eliminate all that meta-reality stuff as totally irrelevant to the reality which appears to be consistent to us all.
So even if I'm a brain in a jar and all of this is some illusion to keep me from going insane, so what? I'd point out though that a) it's not working and b) you'd think 'they' could come up with something better than this.
Or, in the TL; DR version: solipsism is a wholly useless position to take.
Yeah, it might be a simulation, other minds may not exist - whoopty-fucking-do. Whether the reality we are presented with is "real" or not, it's the only one we have to interact with, so far as we have been able to detect.
