> You can't even know if anyone other than you is conscious. This claim comes up quite often in these sorts of discussions, but it is very hard to maintain thi

> You can't even know if anyone other than you is conscious. This claim comes up quite often in these sorts of discussions, but it is very hard to maintain this level of skepticism, about the external world, consistently (to start with, do you believe any of your thoughts are about an external world?) To take this extremely skeptical position only about other peoples' minds would be quite tendentious.