Posted: Dec 30, 2020 3:39 am
Frozenworld wrote:Hermit wrote:Frozenworld wrote:I'd rather get this back on track:
https://prizedwriting.ucdavis.edu/superposition-and-solipsism-survey-quantum-mechanical-approaches-addressing-%E2%80%9C-hard-problem%E2%80%9D
Oh, "the enigmatic nature of the relationship between the brain and the consciousness". Good luck with finding a track for that in conjunction with solipsism and quantum mechanics. Especially in a forum whose entire membership has mastered the ins and outs of the latter.
Well it's similar to what the guy mentions in the shroomery thread about how we presuppose the existence of a thing when referring to experience and quantum mechanics shows us that things are not really solid at all or real.
So why do we presuppose that we are experiencing a thing when we refer to experience itself? Huh?
Ask someone who thinks metaphysical debates are of any use. I have made it abundantly clear that I am not among them, and I repeatedly explained why.
In this thread I implied (post #37) it might be those "who will step into the path of a fast moving truck because they think the truck only exists in their mind."
In the other thread you started on the same topic I explained similarly (post #12) that "this particular assertion, that colour and sound only exist in our minds, once again serves to demonstrate the irrelevance and utter uselessness of solipsism. True or not, it makes no difference to your behaviour. When you approach a red traffic light (which solipsism insists doesn't exist except in your mind), you do not keep driving regardless because colour is just in your mind, or because your perception of red may differ from that of other people (who also don't even exist except in your mind). When you look like going through the red light, and a passenger in your car screams "Stop!", you do not ignore it because the sound (and passenger for that matter) only exists in your mind."