What is solipsism?
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The belief that you, yourself are the only person who actually exists/has consciousness.
“I think therefore I am” -Descartes
Since I can think, I know that I exist, so how am I supposed to know that other people think like I do? I can’t see through their eyes, I don’t think their thoughts, so how do I know they think? They could either be automatons that react to certain stimuli, or they and the rest of the universe could just be a hallucination entirely withing our heads. The state the universe is in and the input from all of your senses is just entirely made up by your head, and the universe just follows a set of rules made up by your own head. Since you can’t exist outside of your brain, how are you to ever know this isn’t the case?
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