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"Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. At first it seems silly – and who generally got it into his head completely deny the existence of the world around us? Except when you put your mind to it, it really is impossible to verify anything but your own consciousness.
Don’t you believe me? Think a moment and think of all the possible dreams that you have experienced in your life. Is it not possible that everything around you is nothing but an incredibly intricate dream? But we have people and things around us that we cannot doubt, because we can hear, see, smell, taste and feel them, right? Yes, and no. People who take LSD, for example, say that they can touch the most convincing hallucinations, but we do not claim that their visions are “reality”. Your dreams simulate sensations as well, after all, what you perceive is what different sections of your brain tell you to.
As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? None. Not the chicken we ate for dinner or the keyboard beneath our fingers. Each of us can only be sure in his own thoughts."
Don’t you believe me? Think a moment and think of all the possible dreams that you have experienced in your life. Is it not possible that everything around you is nothing but an incredibly intricate dream? But we have people and things around us that we cannot doubt, because we can hear, see, smell, taste and feel them, right? Yes, and no. People who take LSD, for example, say that they can touch the most convincing hallucinations, but we do not claim that their visions are “reality”. Your dreams simulate sensations as well, after all, what you perceive is what different sections of your brain tell you to.
As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? None. Not the chicken we ate for dinner or the keyboard beneath our fingers. Each of us can only be sure in his own thoughts."
My thoughts on this are simple. There is no other proof, other than that of your own feelings, that something exists. You can use your 5 senses, or your internal feelings. That's about it. Nothing else matters. If you weren't here, you wouldn't experience anything, but you are here, so your experiences matter to you, because you feel and think them. The only way to change anything, according to this theory, is to change your way of thinking and doing things. Everything else just happens to us. We can only change ourselves and be an example to other selves with their own observance, and listenings, of you.
Trippy huh? I think this is a cool theory. It settles a lot of questions regarding all the complexities of life and brings them to one simple truth. The truth that you are the only one responsible for your actions, thoughts and feelings. To eat healthy or not to eat healthy, to take medications for serious problems, or not to take medications, to exercise or not to exercise, to farm or not to farm, to gather or not gather, to hunt or to hunt not, to accomplish tasks or to not accomplish tasks, to read or to not read... etc.
