11th March 2005, 5:18 PM
I've obviously just been kidding about all this time about solipsism, but I do find the concept intriguing, so I shall continue this discussion:
The major problem with that logic is that it is far more reasonable to believe everyone has their own unique personality than to believe that one, just one person, is real and everyone else is an automaton. All the evidence points to the former. The latter has no evidence to support it and is overly complicated. Thus, logic supports that you are a silly little little... little... goron. Swish!
Why is that far more reasonable? Reason is relative to one's self. What's reasonable for you may not reasonable for 6 billion other people. Do you REALLY know that there are other people out there? You've always lived believing so, and sometimes other people's personalities can be so deep--but is it ever really ever possible to KNOW or simply to BELIEVE? What evidence points to "the former"? Logic supports either one. Don't take this reply as combattive in nature; but I do so enjoy philosophical debates. :love:
The major problem with that logic is that it is far more reasonable to believe everyone has their own unique personality than to believe that one, just one person, is real and everyone else is an automaton. All the evidence points to the former. The latter has no evidence to support it and is overly complicated. Thus, logic supports that you are a silly little little... little... goron. Swish!
Why is that far more reasonable? Reason is relative to one's self. What's reasonable for you may not reasonable for 6 billion other people. Do you REALLY know that there are other people out there? You've always lived believing so, and sometimes other people's personalities can be so deep--but is it ever really ever possible to KNOW or simply to BELIEVE? What evidence points to "the former"? Logic supports either one. Don't take this reply as combattive in nature; but I do so enjoy philosophical debates. :love:
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