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It's not solipsism. The idea that "you" exist is just as conceptual as physics - there is no solipsism without "you". And the idea that it "turns out to just b
by colordrops 3y ago
It's not solipsism. The idea that "you" exist is just as conceptual as physics - there is no solipsism without "you". And the idea that it "turns out to just be physics" is a concept rather than reality. It's a thought of yours, not ground truth. And labeling this "solipsism" is just falling into that trap once again. It's really a miasma of perception in the form light and shadow and color and sound and pressure and heat (which are crude conceptual labels themselves for actual experience), and thoughts emerge in this cloud of sensation, also as independent phenomena in themselves. This subjective experience is first and primary. Any structure you build on top of it is conceptual and not ground truth.
It's not solipsism or contrived, quite the opposite. It's profound. Whether we like the fact or not, or that it's not convenient to your desire to have a mathematical formulation of the world, doesn't make it any less true. To downgrade the most direct experience of reality and give primacy to the conceptual is to confuse the map with the territory.