2007-04-06 16:27:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
and once the solipsist is dead then he's just dead right? much like what the atheists beleive. the solipsist ceases to exist forever because thought finaly stops correct?
2007-04-06 16:41:11 · update #1
Basically, they believe that the universe cannot exist without them. If you're not there to witness something, then it doesn't exist to you. Of course they realize that they can die, it would be foolish not to. Likewise, they must realize that they came to be physically in the normal way. It deals more with consciousness, and how that came to be is as much a mystery to the solipsists as anyone else.
As sort of a freelance solipsist, I believe, not so much that other people don't exist, but that my reality is the only one I can be sure exists. I believe that after i die, reality as I know it (therefore, the only confirmed reality) will cease to exist. So, even if things still exist, they may as well not exist, because can't perceive them.
At the same time, I realize that all of this is philosophy and nothing more, and I don't base my life around it at all. That's the main problem I have with philosophy in general: it's impossible to reconcile with the "real" physical world.
2007-04-06 16:38:18 · answer #1 · answered by Dig a Pony 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't expect an answer to your question from an authentic solipsist. Because a genuine solipsist doesn’t belong on the Yahoo? Forum because he or she would believe that there is no one else who would show up on the page to answer your question. I don't think the solipsist gives much thought to living and dying because everything exists in his/her mind. As a matter of fact to a solipsist when the moment of death occurs, the whole world ceases to exist. Poof.
2007-04-06 23:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People are taking this way too seriously here. There are no solipsists. Solipsists are straw figures that philosophers create in order to argue against, to establish the limits of certain knowledge. But there are no actual solipsists.
2007-04-06 23:53:20 · answer #3 · answered by mcd 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I wrote myself into existance and, by gods, I can write myself out.
2007-04-06 23:35:23 · answer #4 · answered by ___ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋