Do you agree with solipsism?

[gooblet]

Solipsism is quite an interesting take. As my dpdr has gotten worse, i've started to lose touch with reality and am having doubts with whether things are real. After all the only thing you can actually prove is real is yourself. There is no way of proving that your senses tell the truth.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I can't say I tend to experience life like this. It feels horribly real most of the time. So- is it like you feel like everything and everyone is a simulation and, only you are real? That things only exist when your senses perceive them? The whole scenario of the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it so- did it make a sound? Type of quandary?

For me, I believe the world exists- whether I witness it or not. It existed billions of years before my birth and will likely exist at least a few million after my death.

Where I would agree is my individual perception of the world is in some ways, likely unique. Not just because of my senses- which likely share similarities to everyone else's but- because of my lived experience. My preferences. My experience of a song, a sunset, a biscuit is likely fairly unique to me. To what memories it conjures up. To how I'm feeling at the time. I don't think reality needs me to exist though.

 

[DarkRange55]

I agree with solipsism to the extent that the existence of oneself is the only thing that one can know for sure (even the nature of that existence cannot be known for sure).
However, I disagree with those that say oneself is the only thing that exists – the existence of other things are highly probable, but simply cannot be proven.

I'm not a fan of the theory that we are probably Boltzmann brains because over the course of near-infinite time Boltzmann brains would statistically dominate consciousness.
In the first place, this assumes that the ability for Boltzmann brains to pop into existence remains for near-infinite time. And in the second place, the statistical argument fails because by that same argument, Boltzmann brains that didn't bother with a consistent perceived "reality" would vastly outnumber those that had a consistent perceived reality. Since my perceived reality is consistent (what I think of as the past obeys coherent laws), the Boltzmann brain dominated universe fails the statistical test that it depends on for its claim of dominance.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

My working hypothesis is: the world is like it seems. Atherwise I cold not live and act. But back in my bain I know that I can only be sure that my mind exists.

 

[daruino]

I mean- it is difficult to refute solipsism since it doesn't even have any arguments in support of it- solipsism is more a skeptical stance on realism. I can't not "agree" with this skepticism- because it can't be disproven (nor proven)- but practically speaking- no one can actually live as a solipsist. If you are the only mind to exist- I can imagine someone who does not have any social interactions anymore- doesn't go outside- works etc. My philosophy teacher used to joke that if someone actually thinks like that they'd have to visit a psych ward.