what are arguements FOR solipsism???

Question

are there any arguements that prove for it??

Answer 1

I find it hard to believe that there could be, however, if you look at the government, you have to believe it does exists and is proven

Answer 2

I've heard of this and always wondered, but as the following states it is impossible to prove or disprove. The only way of wanting to prove would mean you beleive in it in which case it doesn't matter. A bit complicated at first but makes sense to me in a strange way.


According to one argument, no experiment (by a given solipsist A) can be designed to disprove solipsism (to the satisfaction of that solipsist A). Solipsism is therefore said to be unfalsifiable in the sense in which Karl Popper used the word. A solipsistic viewpoint held by a particular individual is unfalsifiable only to that individual, however. Any other person B might by introspection (cogito, ergo sum) conclude that he or she (B) does in fact exist and therefore that A is proven wrong (though B might symmetrically doubt whether A exists, and therefore would not have disproven solipsism per se, only solipsism by A). Even though B has proven A wrong, there is no way for B to validly convince A to abandon solipsism, since A doubts B's very existence, let alone B's experiences or experimental results.



A thought-experiment related to solipsism is the brain in a vat. The person performing the thought-experiment considers the possibility that they are trapped within some utterly unknowable reality, much like that illustrated in the movie The Matrix. A mad scientist could be sending the same impulses to one's brain in a vat that one's brain (understood to be that of a person in the "real world") might receive, thereby creating "the world" as one knows it from the mad scientist's program. Yet, for one's brain in the vat, that "world" would obviously not be "real." This raises the possibility that everything one thinks or knows is illusion. Or, at the least, that one cannot know with any certainty whether one's brain is in the "real world" or in a vat receiving impulses that would create an equivalent consciousness— or even if there is a real world, mad scientist, brain, or vat. This also can be connected to Descartes "Meditations" In that he supposes that all of reality and his senses are merely being invoked by God, but though the example is the same under different circumstances, Descartes only used this Solipism example so that he might prove it wrong.

Answer 3

Arguments, there are many.
But... You will interpretate it on your own way.
The one and only existent truth is the one that takes place in your own self. The world is viewed, felt, heard, understood by you thru your senses.
You were taught that the sky is blue, so you say its blue. Nothing there to explain... but if i say blue and what i really mean is YOUR white, you will never know. The reason is because my eyes see it "blue" and yours as well. We will agree.
"I think so I exist" that's a famous quote. Actually the only thing that exists is my own thinking. Said that, I can comfortably assume that the ideas I just exposed in here, wasn't really written! Nor do you happen to be there at this right time in order to read them, once I am the only self that exists.
In other words, I would love to give you logical arguments to hold those theses in a philosophical stream.
I cannot guarantee you read it yourself.


PS: If we had the same religion, can you guarantee we believe at the same God...

Hugs!
V.

Answer 4

narcissism.