<Therefore, there is no way to account for these differences in perception unless I am actually creating you. How could it be any differently?>
I am still wrestling with how you are using the word "create" Jim. If you mean that you are creating your own perspective or impression of a person inside your own mind then I understand. People's different perspectives on another person are easy to account for without claiming to "create" the person, right? --- In [email protected], "sandiego108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > But that's what's so interesting to me--not *whether* > > > > one or the other is true, but the fact that we can't > > > > tell, that we can never know the most fundamental > > > > fact of ontology. > > > > > > I think we can tell which view is true. Occams Razor, > > > why weigh down observable reality with an invented > > > version of reality far more complex than it needs to be? > > > > But Occam's razor tells us which version is *more > > likely* to be true; it doesn't tell us which *is* true. > > > > > Same with God, I can't see that it's up to anyone to > > > disprove it but for the believers to prove the rest of > > > us are wrong. > > > > Again, the point is that you can neither prove *nor* > > disprove either solipsism or realism. > > > > I'm a realist so I'll stick with assuming > > > you and everyone else is actually here and not part of > > > my daydreams. > > > > As long as you realize it's only an assumption... > > > and the point really isn't "is it real or a daydream?"-- that > polarizes the choices and makes the choice obvious, even to a child. > Rather the point is, you are real and have attributes that I > observe, and my observation of you is guided by my perception. In > other words I will see you differently, even by some miniscule > fraction, than the next person will. Therefore, there is no way to > account for these differences in perception unless I am actually > creating you. How could it be any differently? >
