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Voltaire2

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7. Well you are living in a world your mind created.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #6)

Sat May 18, 2019, 04:09 PM

May 2019

Where solipsism goes wrong is by asserting that your mental construct of the world is the true nature of reality. It obviously isn’t. The related Idealists like for example Berkeley attempted to accommodate the obvious fact that our minds are not in control of this reality they are supposedly generating by inserting an Uber-mind, ie God, to explain why I can’t just will myself a winning lottery ticket.

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Solipsism and Solipsists in Religion Settings [View all] MineralMan May 2019 OP

I almost understood that abqtommy May 2019 #1

Say those 2 words in sequence 3X FAST! 😁 sprinkleeninow May 2019 #2

am not surprised at the limited response dweller May 2019 #3

Some religion believes we can change the world with a prayer, a word Bretton Garcia May 2019 #4

I fear at times that solipsism may be my fate . . . Journeyman May 2019 #5

Nah. All of that is evidence that solipsism is false, actually. MineralMan May 2019 #6

Well you are living in a world your mind created. Voltaire2 May 2019 #7

For some, it gets conflated with the shoe "matrix" MineralMan May 2019 #8

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