Solipisism is causing me so much anxiety. I don't understand why it can't be proven wrong. I have a son and a family I love.is it true?

Question

Solipisism is causing me so much anxiety. I don't understand why it can't be proven wrong. I have a son and a family I love.is it true?

Answer 1

Question 1: Who cares? This is the attitude of Pragmatism.



Suppose my neighbor tells me he's seen angel. This doesn't surprise me too much, because I know he's eccentric, possibly a heavy drinker as well. However, when he tells me the angel is giving him stock market tips and, out of curiosity I check them, I find that this "angel" is giving him really good information. This goes on to the point that it's clear to me that I have a reliable source and I would be crazy not to take advantage of it. Pragmatism is NOT CONCERNED with the question of whether or not the angel really exists. Every day, you have the same information about your family's existence. There's not one single day you wake up and they never existed. Therefore you should operate on the assumption that they exist. Note that expression. I didn't say "believe." I said "operate on the assumption." So, if you're asking yourself if you should get an anniversary gift, the answer is yes.



Question 2: If everything is an illusion, is that so bad?



For thousands of years, people have used this idea arguing that when the physical body dies, consciousness continues. In other words, they've been arguing that you can be with your family after you've died.

Answer 2

The astonishing truth is, a human being is just a robot made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and a toy of the spirits. The softwares for this robot are spirits which join one by one since while you are raised and educated. Spirits are separate elements. A human being is not a single spirit. A human being during his/her life time is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Even thoughts are not your own. When you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. The soul is nothing but an energy like electricity. It's not a spirit and it has no image. The mind is just like computer's mind. After the destruction of a computer completely you will not find it's mind. The same is the case with human beings. No one lives after death in any form. A human being is just a robot made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and a toy of the spirits for their games.

Answer 3

I want you to do a thought experiment with me: imagine you lived in a world where the air was darkness all around you and sound was muffled. Your hands are tied so you cannot feel the air around you. You are in one of two situations. Either the universe is blank, or you have a paper bag over your head. Which seems more likely?



To me, you have a universe that either has one of two explanations: either the sensory data that we receive is unique and different based on where it is coming from (me or you or someone rise) or yours is the only perspective that exists. To me, being an existentialist, realizing that we each photograph the universe uniquely, makes more sense than discarding all other points of view just because we are scared of the dark. Allow the universe to be potentially unknown. It is much more likely than is solipsism, even if we have to determine that with a paper bag of subjectivity over our heads.

Answer 4

These money driven yuppie cults that encourage selfishness are really popular now , they will be proven wrong by science goodness will be shown to be a state of energy , energy in its most efficient state , as an Evolutional Goodhist I increase goodness = wisdom , selflessness , unconditional love , inner strength and inner happiness , I feel one with all life the universe itself increased evolutional fitness of mind and body , we pull down walls we do not build them around ourselves.

Answer 5

Solipsism is a bunch of crap.

If you have a family, you have more important things to worry about! Fvck that metaphysical pseudophilosophical shittte! You're in THE REAL WORLD!

Answer 6

Sam Harris proved it wrong and invented the theory of Mindfulness in the book Waking Up.



The self is imagined and just a thought people identify with. There is no self. There is only you and thoughts and the more you stop identifying with them the better you are.

Answer 7

You don't live in The Matrix; you live in the real world. If you don't get it, you need to seek a therapist.

Answer 8

There are two parts to what is called "solipsism;" the logical, epistemological or "how do we know?" part, which is not easily proven or disproven; Descartes and Wittgenstein accepted this. The second, illogical portion of solipsism, that "no other awareness exists," is illogical, as it accepts as unproven the "how can we know?" epistemological issue, and then unjustifiably further postulates that "we cannot know"--and, doubling down upon an unjustified claim, then concludes that therefore "there is only 'this awareness.'"



This illogicality is similar to any human awareness erring paradigmatic; e.g., the atomist who senses only 5-sense Kantian phenomena data; the atomist, logically, ought be agnostic as to whether e.g. Swedenborgian Noumenal data "Is"--and note the different sensibility protocol(s) allegedly necessary to access it--in order to preclude a two-step erring much like the "we cannot know, and therefore there is only this atomicity awareness" of the illogical portion of ("dogmatic" or erroneously axiomizing) solipsism. (You might not know of the Kant-Swedenborg kerfuffle, but it is important in the annals of philosophy. Quee Nelson's "The Slightest Philosophy" does much to disclose the simple assumptions of much of philosophical thought.)



A similar psychologism is portrayed in Aesop's Fable of the fox and the grapes. The grapes may be said to = knowledge beyond one's perceptual level of discernment. Unable to so access ("we cannot know"), the atomistic fox erroneously concludes the grapes aren't "really good" ("therefore there is no additional level of goodness").



So, in fine, it is difficult to "prove or disprove" the existence of "other minds;" however, it is illogical to then claim e.g. that because we don't access the proclaimed Oneness of "allowing this Mind to abide in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," that there is no Mind individuated Oneness (or, as Plotinus stated, [no] "One Mind Soul"-Realization).



Related: "Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization," by Brian Hines; "Light Is a Living Spirit;" "God at the Speed of Light;" "The Great Divorce;" "The Little White Horse;" "The Answer You're Looking for Is inside You." And, given your particulars, "For Couples Only" and "Bringing Up Boys" :-)

Answer 9

Well the good news is that as you have spelled it incorrectly it can't be that relevant to you.

Answer 10

Is it true? First one must figure out what truth is. If what we believe is truth is in fact truth, then only that which we believe to be truth is truth. Nothing else. See? Choices. YOU choose the truth you want to exist.