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You claim that the existence of minds is just a hypothesis. If that's so, what thought the thoughts which lead to your post? An entity capable of thought IS a m
by SAI_Peregrinus 12y ago
You claim that the existence of minds is just a hypothesis. If that's so, what thought the thoughts which lead to your post? An entity capable of thought IS a mind, and the existence of thought is the only certain thing.
Something is thinking, therefore thought exists.
The thing which is thinking seems to be somehow located in my body, but I can't prove that I'm not just some sub-process in a vast simulation or such. I also can't prove that the thing which is thinking is actually located in my body, and not just operating through it but with an independent existence. But either way something is thinking, so there is a mind. Whether one chooses solipsism, spiritualism, or materialism (or anything else) the existence of at least one mind is directly observable.