How to refute solipsism and not believe in it?
I'm telling my story:solipsism was taught at UNI,I delved into this topic,read experiments:brain in a flask, etc. and now I think that my mind is one real one, as in the experiment "brain in a flask".I think that my brain was placed by a certain scientist in a flask,and all the people in the world were created for me to explore.Here's a question:I don't need these thoughts and I don't want to believe that all people don't have the mind of "philosophical zombies".How do you know that other people also have minds and are not zombies?The attach argument.P.S. It seems that I am an adult, I didn't have such thoughts before and I didn't believe in them.Maybe I was too impressed with this direction that I began to believe in it?
You have already been told that you do not have solipsism, but either a youthful impressionability or a mental illness.
Any philosophical position is a tool, it should not create problems, but allow them to be solved.
Metaphysics does not need to be “refuted”; it needs to be discarded if it is unfruitful. Including in the sense of psychological comfort.
In solipsism, a person and his brain or mind are identified.�
This is a misconception.
The brain, along with the mind and limited consciousness, are tools of a person, not the reason for his existence and not the person himself.
I enclose the argument
Recently, I saw on the Web, in my opinion, a wonderful illustration of one of the ways to refute solipsism.
A young man says to the girl he likes:
“You just refuted Solipsism. My mind definitely wouldn't be able to create something as perfect as you.”�
Illustration on the example of a computer model, where the brain is the computer itself (hardware), and a person is a computer user
A solipsist is a user who believes that he is a processor and a piece of a database on a hard disk. The hard disk is isolated by a “bottle”, and does not respond to the commands of some other user external to it. This piece is dedicated to the study of other, external to itself, virtual (illusory) users, and was created solely for this purpose.
The solipsist does not believe in the existence of other computers and users because of the existence of communication via the Internet, which he also does not believe in.
Even the ability to share a “cloud” on the Internet solipsist considers a reason to consider yourself this “single cloud”.
What leads to solipsism is a misunderstanding of the fact that a person at some point in his past believed the lie that the mind and a person who owns his mind are one and the same thing.
If you ask this question to other people, then you hope to get an answer not from yourself, but from others, therefore you believe in their existence separately from your consciousness and do not believe in solipsism.
Solipsism cannot be logically refuted by reasoning. Whatever happens, the solipsist will assume that all this is just a complex of his feelings. The real refutation of Solipsism is achieved only by socio-historical practice. Solipsism does not allow you to adapt to real life, and its bearer will be forced to die, being inadequate to the world.
I don't want to offend you in any way-it's obvious that you are an interested person-but your contradictions arise from a lack of reading. Try reading ancient philosophers and thinkers-Nietzsche, for example. You are trying to solve a problem in higher mathematics without having any knowledge of a school algebra course. Try it from the basics, and then you can already learn the branches. This is completely benevolent advice. Arguments – a well-read person-has a competent speech, at least. You can go deeper “In”, not “SOMETHING”. Hence the misunderstanding.
Two different things.
Refutation is an act of reason. Reason is based on reasoning and experience (personal and collective). It is impossible to refute such a worldview by reasoning: otherwise it would not have such broad support, from Hume to Buddhism.
And faith is an act of free will.
Why do you want to get rid of it? So you yourself are not satisfied with this theory of solipsism? That is, the question is different. What you need to know is how to get rid of solipsism, not whether it is true or not? This is already a psychological problem. You need to clear your subconscious mind. Try autosuggestion. Repeat the phrase “I believe that I am part of the real world” aloud or to yourself at least 100 times a day. Better yet, write this phrase down 100 times a day in your notebook. In a few days, everything will pass and you will become a realist. 100% guaranteed%
The easiest way is to practice boxing. This will allow you to better immerse yourself in the real world and develop useful skills in life. Philosophers who are also trying to understand the world gather there, and they will help refute the arguments of solipsists. But with the help of books-it will not work.
You ask people, talk to them, they give you advice, and you expect help from those who are a figment of your imagination?))). From those who can't think? If so, then you are talking to yourself, asking yourself, and answering yourself. But what about all the dialogues that are conducted in addition to you? Which you don't know about until you read them? After all, you can't say that your imagination is drawing something that you don't already know and that exists without the influence of your consciousness?). I give you my word that every person is intelligent and that the influence of each person on each person is only to the extent that he allows himself. I think, and I don't care what you think of me. And so that's it!
I remember reading somewhere that truth is born in a dispute.I can say that my opinion is somewhat different.Because an excessive desire to convince others of the correctness of their thoughts is an unjustified waste of vital energy.I expressed my opinion and heard that others have a great point of view.Yes, and on your health.Time can push you to change your outlook on life.With pleasure, we will give this choice to the person himself.To see and observe boundaries-one's own and others ' – is the power of a reasonable person
As an epistemological position, Solipsism insists that knowledge of anything in the world and outside of one's own mind is not reliable. There are different degrees of solipsism that parallel different degrees of skepticism. A feature of the metaphysical solipsistic worldview that Solipsists practice is the denial of the existence of other Intelligences.
“The world,” he taught, ” is my idea!”
And when it's in the chair under the seat
My son stuck a pin in,
He shouted, ” Guard!
How terrible my performance is!”
Solipsism is just a theory that states that you are the only person who exists in the world, and all any other objects are a figment of your imagination, as in the Matrix, for example. It's a pity, but some people believe in this theory so much that they are affected by the solipsism syndrome, which they themselves invented.
In a video game, the behavior of computer characters is easy to track: they behave according to some finite program, which, if studied for a long time, can be understood and its actions predicted.
It's a completely different matter — human characters in multiplayer. Whatever I can do, they can do, and I don't find a single fundamental difference between us.
Then, in order to understand my allies or opponents, I resort to the principle of similarity. When I think about their incomprehensible “nature” or “inner essence,” I assume that they are like me. I project onto them feelings, aspirations, fears, desires, and fears like the ones I have. In this way, I model their minds, and this model allows me to understand their actions.
All models are false and inaccurate, because they contain highly simplified descriptions of actual processes. But people use models not because they are the most correct, but because they are useful.
I respond to solipsism with agnosticism. There are a lot of things I don't know or understand. This is a serious gap in my outlook. But I don't have to be ashamed of this gap or spend my whole life philosophically trying to fill it. It is enough to admit that there is something that I cannot know.
I do not know how it works. I don't know! But I can still play with this object and at least partially learn it from the behavior that our game has generated. And that's enough for me to start with.
This is just one of many ideas that philosophers have come up with. Life is long ahead and you will learn a lot more.
And if you wrote here, then you assume that reasonable people will answer you, and not zombies. So I'll assume that you don't believe in this idea. It is rather just unpleasant emotions, a sense of absurdity.