That question is almost like how a theist thinks? You are asking for objective purpose for your existence. You think it would be absurd if there was just you and this is seen as proof that there are others. A similar argument could be made for, for example, the everlasting soul. Or God. Since life would be absurd if we simply died. Etc.
Sure. I was trying to be creative. Also I have a gut feeling there is some nugget of truth in there also. Or, to be provocative: perhaps the time has come to notice this purpose is no longer necessary and I am one of the first ones to notice.
Solipsism might be a laugh, but it is also irrefutable, and all ways of thinking eventually end up in solipsism. Solipsism is quite the formidable enemy, nothing to laugh at.
Not my way of thinking Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I think solipsism is a totally ridiculous attempt to arrive at the same implications as my view does. It only falls short, solipsism that is.
I don't think that constitutes proof. There are plant forms called Rhizomes that can be enormous individuals - root systems - which look like many individuals but are not. There is no reason a planet couldn't have one large rhizome structure, period. And no other members to that species. Also nature has many exceptions: animals and plants with singular qualities that are not shared by other species. And last: if you are the only thing that is, those animals are really a part of you. A part of your dream. Or a part of the phenomenological realm that is you.
What, so now you have a your way of thinking? Your way, yours and yours alone, and screw objectivity?
It can of course, but it is not the rule. There is no procreation if there is only one individual of a species. Which is totally ridiculous. Solipsism failed to do away with the self and as a result becomes ridiculous.
I meant what I described in the OP. And I didn't implicate that no one else has the same view. Myles seems to agree with most of it, if not all.
So? This does not mean that the world is actually a part of you. You are trying to prove something using details from a model that might be false. Solipsism was not an attempt to do away with the self.
Sure. I am pointing out your assumptions. Yes, perhaps there is no outside. Dream implicate an outside, but as you have made painfully clear in other threads you consider them COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE. It seems like they are about objects, but dreams are actually not in contact with objects. You accepted exceptions for sounds in the room, etc. But we can see that even in the absence of outside stimuli the sleeper can imagine that all these external objects and beings exist. Later he or she wakes up and realizes it was not the case. Or Myles and Enmos can tell him that none of these things were external. The same could be be true for waking life. phenomenological actually brackets off ideas of subject and object. It sets to the side notions of what is real and focuses on experience. I think you meant 'implies' not implicates.