idk still existence seems linked to selfevidence

asdfjkl wrote:why should i not be a solipsist tho>

You still haven't told us why you, or anyone, should be a solipsist. Is it just because it seems self-evidently true?



I hope you don't mind me asking, and I in no way wish to offended or embarrass you, but have you been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder?

THWOTH wrote:

asdfjkl wrote:why should i not be a solipsist tho>

You still haven't told us why you, or anyone, should be a solipsist. Is it just because it seems self-evidently true?



I hope you don't mind me asking, and I in no way wish to offended or embarrass you, but have you been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder?

it seems selfevident that its impossible to know what is "externally"
btw I have some autism symptoms (very mild) but havent seen a shrink.
Me worrying about things seems more like OCD which I def have.

now reply

also please reply people?

asdfjkl wrote:

THWOTH wrote:

asdfjkl wrote:why should i not be a solipsist tho>

You still haven't told us why you, or anyone, should be a solipsist. Is it just because it seems self-evidently true?

it seems selfevident that its impossible to know what is "externally"

I think that depends on what you think it means to 'know' something-or-other about something-or-other, and how one might arrive at a point where one can be reasonably confident about the results of the type of enquiry that amount to what we call knowledge. There's an interesting exchange between andrewk and susu.exp which touches on this in the "Nomenclature for believing things without evidence?" here.

If you're referring to the problem of extreme skepticism (e.g. maybe everything I experience is a hallucination, maybe I'm a brain in a vat, etc), then no. In my view that problem is insurmountable. My approach is to just ignore it.

If there is no external world, then I've got a pretty fucked up fantasy to imagine all this stuff going on in the world...