SOLIPSISM

'Solipsism (from the Latin ipse = "self" and solus = "alone") is the epistemological belief that one's self is the only thing that can be known with certainty and verified (sometimes called egoism). Solipsism is also commonly understood to encompass the metaphysical belief that only one's self exists, and that "existence" just means being a par't of one's own mental states — all objects, people, etc, that one experiences are merely parts of one's own mind. Solipsism is first recorded with the presocrat ...

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SOLIPSISM

The conviction that there is no external reality beyond oneself. This view is no longer considered illogical, insane or even necessarily psychopathic. The inhabitant of a solipsistic universe, however, must realize sooner or later, that everything in it is his own creation -- including all the things he hates and fears. By extension it should be obvious that our society is simply in a larger solipsistic boat.

Michael Bertiaux, in his Voudun Gnostic Workbook gives us a glimpse of the infinity of dimensions even within one's own solipsism and a possible link to interpenetrations with non-solipsistic universe. He cites the interdimensional work of Japanese artist and Esoteric Plutonian Shintoist, Hiroyuka Fukuda:

"... finding ourselves as captives of his imagination and its esoteric viciousness which now seeks to distort us and transform us by fragmentary patters of initiation into a kind of fire-substance, from which we are again created and destroyed serially. If there is any escape from this madman, this destroyer of all sensitivity, who destroys our senses by his own overstimulation and radioactivity, it must be found in the calm of the white camellias, which pose as doorways of mystical escape from the horrors of the black magician, the artist sorcerer of the black camellias. But where do these doorways and spirit passageways lead us, except [...] into a very strange realm of alternative consciousness. We find ourselves drugged and intoxicated by erotic perfumes which pour up from the shadow worlds of kliphotic imagination and which must manifest themselves as selfhood, wherein life and death and endless rebirth are rejected and simultaneously affirmed because of the need of the elemental worlds to possess an endless food supply."

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia II - Solipsism - Objections

The classic objection to solipsism is that people die. However, the objector has not died, and therefore has not disproved it. This objection is also vulnerable to the criticism that it is impossible to know whether the mind lives on after death or not; hence, the theory is not disproven, because someone could exist even after death. Death can also be seen as a figment of the imagination - that person may not have died at all. A further objection is that life causes pain. Why would we create pain for ourselves? One response to this is ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Brain in a vat

In philosophy, the brain in a vat is any of a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning. It is drawn from the idea, common to many science fiction stories, that a mad scientist might remove a person's brain from their body to suspension in a vat of life-sustaining liquid, and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives. According to such stories, the ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Egoism

Egoism may refer to any of the following: psychological egoism - the doctrine that holds that individuals are always motivated by self-interest. ethical egoism - the ethical doctrine that holds that individuals ought to do what is in their self-interest. rational egoism - the belief that it is rational to act in one's self-interest. solipsism - (sometimes called egoism) - the belief that only one's self exists, or that only the experiences of one's self can be verified. egotism - ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Existence

There is no universally accepted theory of what the word existence means. The dominant (though by no means universal) view in twentieth-century and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy is that existence is what is asserted by statements of first order logic of the form "for some x Fx". This agrees with the simple and commonsensical view that, in uttering "There is a bridge across the Thames at Hammersmith", or "A bridge crosses the Thames at Hammersmith", we are asserting the existence of a bridge across the Thames at Hammersmith. The word "existence", on this view, is simply a way of describing the logi ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Ontology

In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: being (part. of εἶναι: to be) and -λογία: writing about, study of) is the most fundamental branch of metaphysics. It studi ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Idealism

Idealism is an approach to philosophical enquiry. The ideal, in these systems, relates to direct knowledge of subjective mental ideas, or images. It is usually juxtaposed with realism in which the real is said to have absolute existence prior to and independent of our knowledge. Epistemological idealists might insist that the only things which can be directly known for certain are ideas. Idealism - History. Idealism names a number of philosophical positions with quite different t ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Nihilism

Nihilism as a philosophical position is the view that the world, and especially human existence, is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. Some philosophers are considered nihilists if they hold the philosophical position that either (1) nothing exists (all there is is nothing), (2) the reality we humans experience does not exist at all as we see it, or (3) reality is unknowable, and thus the pursuit of objective understanding is pointless. It is more often a charge leveled against a particular idea ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Cosmology metaphysics

Cosmology is the branch of philosophy and metaphysics that deals with the world as the totality of all phenomena in space and time. Presocratic philosophers from the Ionian School are sometimes called cosmologists. There are nine basic cosmological positions that form the foundation of virtually all philosophies and religions. These are: Naturism: The universe is all that exists. Any God or gods are a product (derived) of the universe. (Western atheism) Negationism: God does not exist, but is a mere illusion. The universe does not exist; it too is a ...

SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia - Zazen

Zazen is at the heart of Zen Buddhist practice. Zazen is different from other meditation in that it uses no meditation object or concept to focus on. The aim of Zazen is to first still the mind. Then after years of practice to reach a state of pure thought free wakefulness so that the mind can realize its own Buddha nature. In Zen Buddhism, sitting meditation or zazen (Japanese: 座禅; literally "seated concentration") is a meditative discipline practitioners perform to calm the body and the mind and experience i ...

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SOLIPSISM: Encyclopedia II - Falsifiability - Formal logical arguments

The falsification of theories occurs through modus tollens, via some observation. Suppose some theory T implies an observation O: The required observation, however, is not made, therefore So by Modus Tollens, ...

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