The main problem i have with all kinds of bs theories in Philosophy (which is unfortunately a decent fraction of it) is the angle approached.
It should matter to argue why indeed its not all in one's mind and it is responsibility of science to care about all remote probabilities. But do not make it a theory. Make it a project to argue against.
Do not argue for God or lack of God for example. Investigate instead the origin of life and structure in this universe. Let that tell you the story.
Philosophy often takes positions that are unacceptable as argued. It finds places that answers are impossible to deliver with 100% conviction yet and argues for them instead of arguing against them. How comfortable!
Why is that any different than arguing for life after death or Paradise or Hell or intelligent design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
"Solipsism (/ˈsɒlɪpsɪzəm/ (About this sound listen); from Latin solus, meaning 'alone', and ipse, meaning 'self')[1] is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure;
the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist."
Such confidence in the most unlikely!
We may as well go out and say nothing matters ever, there is no knowledge and close the store.
How remarkably likely that you spend endless time to prove something without success and then it happens after some proper hint or some new angle. But it couldn't happen earlier, you had to suffer first because this is what the brain wanted to create. In fact the rather obvious that it takes effort for a process to acquire critical mass to get to the result is not at all seen as more likely.
Sure the one arguing now for solipsism is doing it against their own self not the others. Yes when your favorite team is losing it all done from your brain yes, when your have a bad result in any effort its all because the brain designed the torture, the same brain that has fun when all is easy every chance it gets. Yes its all an elaborate game of torture from being clueless on everything to gradually learning a lot and you build that all within using exactly what source of energy or what kind of information the original system had that could generate all this external information on its own. How much information our senses receive places a restriction on how big is that mega brain by the way but of course nobody cares for this. Oh i forgot all science is fake news. See why i said Trump above. It is worse than it!
Last edited by masque de Z; 01-14-2018 at 07:25 AM.