Raymond Tallis takes it upon himself to prove that you exist.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/141/Arguing_with_a_Solipsist
Arguing with a Solipsist
Re: Arguing with a Solipsist
It’s not a “someone” who is a solipsist. Solipsist is the one mind of God. ( Awareness )
The Universe is Awareness. Awareness is God. You are Awareness dreaming you are a human.
God is the only being that truly exists.
The Universe is Awareness. Awareness is God. You are Awareness dreaming you are a human.
God is the only being that truly exists.
Re: Arguing with a Solipsist
Philosophy Now wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:24 am Raymond Tallis takes it upon himself to prove that you exist.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/141/Ar ... _Solipsist
“We,” exist only in relationship. – Jiddu KrishnamurtiWe could go beneath the inescapably public nature of language to the mutual dependency of the ‘we’ and the ‘I’. As Martin Heidegger would put it, our individual human existence as Da-sein – ‘being-there’ – is realized through ‘being-with-others’ – Mit-sein. Social interactions constitute what I am. There is no ‘I’ without ‘we’. If there is ‘I’, there must be ‘we’.
Comment:
- “We,” is not restricted to oneself and another person.
- “We,” is oneself, and an object of attention.
- The object of attention can be a person, place, organic thing, inorganic thing, or a thought such as an emotion.
- A self-concept is also a thought.
- This means that because I think, I am because of the relationship with the object of thought.
- Therefore, attention upon a rosebud and not a thought about the rosebud, is also proof that, I am.
- Therefore without a thought or an object of attention, I do not exist, and neither do "we".
- With thought, memory assembles and by comparison with perception, puts order to the world.
And furthermore, what we call a relationship with a person, is largely a relationship with thoughts of that person, unless we're doin' the mess-around or something else biological.
Re: Arguing with a Solipsist
Relationship with thought, yes.Walker wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 8:35 amPhilosophy Now wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:24 am Raymond Tallis takes it upon himself to prove that you exist.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/141/Ar ... _Solipsist“We,” exist only in relationship. – Jiddu KrishnamurtiWe could go beneath the inescapably public nature of language to the mutual dependency of the ‘we’ and the ‘I’. As Martin Heidegger would put it, our individual human existence as Da-sein – ‘being-there’ – is realized through ‘being-with-others’ – Mit-sein. Social interactions constitute what I am. There is no ‘I’ without ‘we’. If there is ‘I’, there must be ‘we’.
Comment:
- “We,” is not restricted to oneself and another person.
- “We,” is oneself, and an object of attention.
- The object of attention can be a person, place, organic thing, inorganic thing, or a thought such as an emotion.
- A self-concept is also a thought.
- This means that because I think, I am because of the relationship with the object of thought.
- Therefore, attention upon a rosebud and not a thought about the rosebud, is also proof that, I am.
- Therefore without a thought or an object of attention, I do not exist, and neither do "we".
- With thought, memory assembles and by comparison with perception, puts order to the world.
And furthermore, what we call a relationship with a person, is largely a relationship with thoughts of that person, unless we're doin' the mess-around or something else biological.
The thought of you and me.
Self reflective. I am but a reflection, a mirror of you, of me, in a cosmic dance of separative unity.
Re: Arguing with a Solipsist
Left Brain arguing with Right Brain
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eQPvW1caDDI
It almost sounds AI generated.
It ends with the man saying he knows human nature, which is mocked.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eQPvW1caDDI
It almost sounds AI generated.
It ends with the man saying he knows human nature, which is mocked.
Re: Arguing with a Solipsist
Arguing with thoughts is the mother of all fuckups/delusion.
Re: Arguing with a Solipsist
Solipsism doesn't deny the existence of the external world, it simply is the recognition of the minds projection.
Without the mind as my projection screen, where do I happen?
Without the mind as my projection screen, where do I happen?
Re: Arguing with a Solipsist
Wow! one can prove existence with words which in of themselves have no meaning.Philosophy Now wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:24 am Raymond Tallis takes it upon himself to prove that you exist.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/141/Ar ... _Solipsist
That goes beyond digging from the bottom of the barrel, that even goes on before literacy, itself.