On 4/26/2021 8:16 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 10:45 AM Terren Suydam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:> It's impossible to refute solipsismTrue, but it's equally impossible to refute the idea that everything including rocks is conscious. And if both a theory and its exact opposite can neither be proven nor disproven then neither speculation is of any value in trying to figure out how the world works./> It's true that the only thing we know for sure is our own consciousness,/And I know that even I am not conscious all the time, and there is no reason for me to believe other people can do better./> but there's nothing about what I said that makes it impossible for there to be a reality outside of ourselves populated by other people. It just requires belief./And few if any believe other people are conscious all the time, only during those times that corresponds to the times they behave intelligently.
Not only that, but they also oftentimes behave intelligently without being conscious of it.
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