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Solipsism (from Lat. Solus - one, ipse - he himself) is a philosophical idea that there is nothing but the source of the idea itself (mater. Observer, ideal. Essence). More precisely, the solipsist is not sure if there is anything other than his feelings. And if there is, then it is not clear what it is. This, in some way, makes him related to another kind of dunno.
The consistent solipsist doubts even the nature of the sensations themselves. What gives his “I” a special significance, which he, without hesitation, smears over his graphomaniac vysera, than delivers a variety of cattle, to which it does not even reach, that it itself is only just the patient's sensations. The word "practice" alone instantly evokes a fierce cognitive dissonance in the solipsist.
The term is very much loved by Vladimir Fomin to denote selfishness, pokhuizm, indifference to his great person. Although, after talking with him, one can be completely convinced that he himself is a solipsist.
Content
- In short, Sklikhosovsky!
- Philosophical definition
- A little more details
- Interesting Facts
- Solipsism and Lucid Dreaming
- Connection with Buddhism
In short, Sklikhosovsky!
A person learns the world through sensations. In what you have not personally seen, you cannot be sure. Moreover, you cannot be sure that you and your neighbor Vasya saw the same thing. Let's say you see two planes crashing into two skyscrapers at the same time. It would seem that Vasya should see the same thing. But here Einstein lights up a joint and speaks about the relativity of simultaneity. Now you turn away from the skyscrapers. Is there a skyscraper at this moment? Having lit a joint, the physicist will tell you that it is in a state of quantum uncertainty. It still stands - and has just collapsed at once. But how you look at it, so the universe with the fate of the structure will be determined. After smoking more, the physicist will explain to you that it is impossible to prove even your death if a skyscraper falls right on your head.
In fact, not a physicist will say all this, but a schizoteric pretending to be him. A physicist, unlike a schizoteric, is aware that quantum uncertainty does not work for macroobjects (see skyscraper). And just from the point of view of physics, the skyscraper will collapse in love. And from the point of view of a solipsist, it will collapse no sooner than you see it with your own eyes.
The final step in this reflection is the question of how your sensations arise. Perhaps they are generated by the Matrix. Maybe they are caused by the light entering your eyes. But it is possible that these are all just your glitches. After all, you are so powerful that the simultaneity of events does not escape your gaze, and you cannot be killed with a skyscraper. Where is this possible, if not in your own dream? This is where complete solipsism comes in. Congratulations. It is probably true that not only Vasya's neighbor is a glitch, but you yourself. And the bug is actually the girl Suzumiya.
The problem is that an outside observer (for example, I) cannot check the presence of consciousness even in an entity that, undoubtedly, possesses it (for example, you). The only entity in which the presence of consciousness is obvious to me is myself. As a result, I admit the presence of consciousness in you, Vasya, Petit, Masha, Ira and Sveta, due to the fact that we are still the same species, are equally arranged and are all differently alike. What a person is feeling can also be a glitch, but it doesn't follow from this that now you don't need to do your homework, brush your teeth and change socks. This world is in any case a very stable illusion.
In fact, to be completely honest, it is impossible to argue that the apparent world is an illusion until it is proven that the objects (supposedly behind the sensations) do not exist. Therefore, the illusory nature of the surrounding world is as much a fantasy as the fact that the surrounding world is real. And since the observed phenomena, as a rule, behave in a completely familiar and predictable way, proceeding from our desire and habit to see (explain) events in a trivial way, then we can assume that the models of reality simplistically correspond to this very reality, in the absence of the opportunity to be 100% sure in the real state of affairs.
Another meaning of the word "solipsism" is an extreme form of egoism (egocentrism) without any philosophical problems, because if nothing but my brain exists, then I, accordingly, don't give a fuck about everything. Typical worldview of a down-and-out junkie or a drug addict who confuses coming with reality. Solipsists of this subspecies, as a rule, do not know the very word "solipsism", because they have not read books.
Philosophical definition
Relativity to the observer also appears in the canonical definition: “Everything that I see, feel, and so on - I see, feel and so on in my mind. Therefore, there is nothing but my hallucinating consciousness. "
This relativity leads the "observer" to the need to take on faith the truth of his feelings of self.
In philosophy, this is usually called subjective idealism. Pelevin will not be mentioned at night with his "Chapaev and Emptiness":
Oh yes, this article seems to you too.
A little more details
Solipsism in one form or another is a very popular topic in modern culture, since you can endlessly talk about it, because you cannot prove or disprove the ideas of solipsism. All reflections on virtual reality, dreams, narcotic hallucinations and other abstractions, brought to a logical beginning, run into the idea that you can doubt everything except the doubt itself. Nothing can doubt. Cogito ergo sum. What led Descartes to the idea of God, the guarantor of the authenticity of sensations (quite an objective idealism), and the author of the "kogitoergi" himself, made the wunderwaffe of rationalism.
For example, the main idea of the “Matrix”, which is expressed in the words “we all sleep and see dreams,” is precisely solipsism (if we ignore the fact that everything in the film is objectively material and cognizable, even the nature of ideal images). On this topic, they wrote to whoever was not too lazy, having learned how to copy-paste bukafki with a camper. Grandpa Lem spun the same idea even more abruptly in the "Futurological Congress" many years before "The Matrix". And then there is Jean Baudrillard with his simulacra.
There is a credit limerick translated by Marshak:
The last phrase, by the way, was replicated thanks to the Strugatskys' novel.
The famous satirist Arkady Averchenko walked along the solipsism, which was very fashionable in his time.
In Alexei Tolstoy's "Aelita", solipsism led to attempts by people to physically kill what they considered to be their glitches, which led to a war of all against all and the collapse of the civilization of Atlantis.
Ray Bradbury's story "Either Night or Morning" describes the gradual madness of an astronaut from a long flight, which manifests itself in progressive solipsism. First, the Earth disappeared, then the crew of his rocket disappeared, and at the end he himself, when he went out in a spacesuit into open space.
In almost every work of the American writer Philip Dick, the main characters doubt the existence of objective reality.
Solipsism is present in Pelevin's book The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (A Huli). Moreover, it becomes almost the basis of the plot. However, this is the plot, denouement and plot in all of his books, without exception. His vyser with a thoughtful name "t" has no special literary value, but it almost entirely consists of this solipsism of yours. In addition, the story of the air defense "The Ninth Dream of Vera Pavlovna" is entirely devoted to the same. The attitude towards the subject is mocking there. Pelevin is often considered a preacher of solipsism, but if you read carefully, you will notice that he mercilessly mocks at the solipsists themselves, especially Peter Pustota.
Solipsism became the basis for the expression of the views of the late Robert Heinlein in his cycle "History of the Future". However, acquaintance with the works of this cycle will be more useful for understanding the removal of the brain than reading the works of the EP.
Mark of our all Twain has a credit story "Christian Science." The bottom line is that the GG, who came up from over9000 height, was treated with exactly solipsism, but Suddenly !!! for the treatment they demanded quite objective money through quite real courts.
Solipsic motives are also heard in the kosher novel "1984" by George Orwell. The protagonist lives in a state of total disinformation and rewriting of history: in the interests of the existing government, absolutely all sources of information - newspapers, magazines, books - undergo daily changes, up to the replacement of the content with the exact opposite, and everyone who mentions it will get fiercely fucked up. Therefore, you do not have to rely on anything other than your own mind and memory. The whole tsimes is that, not being able to get confirmation of his innocence, any person who preserves this very memory of real events and critical thinking begins to consider himself crazy, and either refuses it, or in fact slowly derails. So it goes.
The tales of the maniac Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass" are saturated with solipsism. In particular, in the second book, the Black King sleeps in the forest, who sees in a dream Alice and in general everything that exists. At the same time, it delivers that Alice herself also sees him in a dream. In which he sleeps and sees Alice.
But David Deutsch, in his book "The Structure of Reality", which our same Pelevin pokes at, seems to have refuted solipsism with a simple example:
Interesting Facts
- Solipsism may not deny that other people have also jointly created the world around them with their souls. It's all about the equality of reference systems. In other words, all people are one super-being, however, a person's perception of other people is distorted by a change in the frame of reference, so they seem to him to be different personalities. Something similar is described in the movie "Revolver". However, this will no longer be solipsism, but objective idealism, as can be seen by mastering any textbook of philosophy.
- In general, solipsists are very unstable to criticism. Defending his "idea" from easily and correctly selected arguments, the patient, without knowing it, will quickly move on to the above-described objective idealism, positivism, and even dialectical materialism. And there is only one clue - FGM.
- WARNING !!! With a low level of serotonin, there is a feeling of unreality of what is happening, such a person hardly distinguishes between sleep and reality. If you, Anon, have such symptoms, you should not at all think that you are achieving enlightenment. Most likely, this is a depersonalization-derealization syndrome, that is, a neurosis. Feel free to pack up and go to a psychiatrist. The neurotic disorder is often long-term but can be treated.
Solipsism and Lucid Dreaming
In the world of lucid dream, the subject acquires reality, and after some time, 95% of practitioners become solipsists, because in the world of true lucid dream everything is the same present (people, cars, clouds, ponies, rainbows and another over 9000 total), as in the infallible everyday reality. Everything in the world is a dream, and it is very likely that it is his! Stephen LaBerge is demotivating.
Connection with Buddhism
Interestingly, there is something in Buddhism that resembles solipsism.
Buddhists believed that they have their own reality, which depends on the general, but still subject to them to some extent. They called this reality "relative reality." The logic of thinking of Buddhists was as follows: “The world consists of elementary particles (yes, the Buddhists had an idea of elementary particles). My senses collect information and create the illusion of reality, that is, it seems to me that the world is real, although in fact there are no sounds of color in the real world, etc., the real world is particles and waves, therefore my sensations do not mean anything in "Real world", they are only in my, "relative reality" ".
A simplified version of the passage above: "will someone else see red as blue or green?" And yes: just as there are color blind people, there may be people with an alternative perception of the world by any other sense organ.
