Let's assume that I believe I am the only 'human' to exist. Let's actually assume that I may only be a mind - I might even be nothing more than an intellegent 'computer program' in part of the system that models the universe. So, everything else around me is part of that simulation - maybe I am too, but I can only understand my own thoughts and perceive things from my own senses (that are all part of that system). What is this belief called?
I thought it might be solipsism, but the more I read the more I realise that solipsism doesn't really describe the belief that there *may* be something real, we just aren't in it and, perhaps, we can never find it. Perhaps everything is just a simulation of everything else. Perhaps it's all in the mind of Shiva, I don't know - the point is, what's this all called?! It's driving me mad when people ask me 'what do you believe' having to try to explain to them that I don't even believe they exist!!! A one word response would be easier!
2007-08-02
03:02:19
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