LoL! Where did
that come from?
Solipsism is basically a sort-of "I know I exist, and everything else builds from this first principle" thing. How can you not have faith your own existence? I guess it's feasible that someone could "experience death" /total loss of ego while on LSD, and from then on refer to themselves in the 3rd person and remain eerily convinced that the only thing keeping them "alive" is the causality of all the particle physics acting upon their body. But that would be weird, IMO. Notice how a "loss of ego" is equivalent to saying a "loss of knowledge of Self", which also implies that prior to the loss there was "faith in self".
Besides, I'm picking up a vibe of defensiveness towards some kind of socialist "objective reality" doctrine.
When faced with 2 seemingly obvious but polar opposite theories about reality:
a) Self = god = conscious experience; the self is unlimited in size; the visible 'reality' that we see through our eyes is illusory and smaller than we really are; other 'people' may be different parts of the same Self.
b) Self = basically nothing; we are tiny specks in a huge objective reality, and all those other people are fundamentally separate entities yet at least equal to or probably greater than us.
for reasons of political and religious expedience, a is frowned upon and b is the correct view.
Oh, sorry if I did not express myself correctly.
I have faith that you exist, that the world is real outside my mind, that when a tree falls in the woods it makes a sound even if no one is there to listen.
From a philosophical point of view, I reject solipsism on faith.
And I was answering to: "So if there is no consciousness or intelligence in the universe anywhere, circles don't exist?"
