> The universe you experience is different than my own. How would you know this if you've never experienced how I experience it? > We use language and shared

> The universe you experience is different than my own. How would you know this if you've never experienced how I experience it? > We use language and shared culture to consensually hallucinate a "shared" universe but no such thing truly exists for us. You seem to suggest that culture is some shared fantasy superimposed on reality, but how could it be given your solipsism? How could anything be shared? > We can perceive objects and describe them in similar ways How would you know? Maybe I mean different things when I speak. Maybe my speech isn't speech at all and you're just construing it as such? Maybe there is no me? > but the fact remains that we can't access the universe that the objects truly exist in (if that even exists) How would you know without being able to "access" the universe to make that comparison? Are you a gnostic with secret knowledge (in which case, you do have access)? You've also already assumed a distinction between universe and mind, but how could you if all you have are these "representations", as you call them? The distinction would itself just be a mental "representation". > since, for us, they have no independent existence outside of our mental representation. If there is no reality to represent, then they aren't mental representations, are they. > Or shortly, when you die the universe dies with you. The universe you don't know actually exists? But if it exists, why should it die with you? P.S. Less weed, more rigor.