"The meaning of life is just to be alive. it so plain and so obvious and so simple, and yet everybody rushes around in great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves"- Alan Watts
Alan watts was wrong. The only true meaning there is in life is create more life. That's all there is, the drive to stay alive is the only thing that every single plant and animal have in common. That's why women are so ambitious and so ready to drop a man as soon as it is beneficial to them. This world is a hell that is controlled by the ever present desire to live. Watts a genius but he's a dreamer who liked sex as much as anyone.
I felt the same way. Ultimately, however, the deepest nature of the universe doesn't matter. Whether a personal dream or an independently-extant reality, our decision-making criteria is not altered, and that's really the prime function of knowledge. There are cause-and-effect processes at play in this experience, and we need to understand them and align our thinking and behaviors to them in order to prosper. Through consistency and consensus of experience, we can attain knowledge that is more useful than mere opinion. This is science, and it is the height of "objectivity" available to man. There are such objective answers to questions of physics, morality, human nature, etc., and we'll miss them if we buy into a self-defeating epistemological position that asserts futility.
Thank you for telling all of us that you'r a narcissistic sociopath. Please, test the cause n' effect of your choices and see how mistreating others results for you.
Since I was a child I've believed this to be the case. I didn't know other people thought the same thing, and I didn't know there was a whole philosophy around it. Fascinating, thank you.
As someone who follows Zhuangzi's teachings, it was the Butterfly Dream that saved me from depression, from this day forth, I became a taoist. I don't actually knows if what I am seeing is real, but I know that my mind is real, and even though some of the memories that I had might be fake. I still enjoyed every second of my life, because in the end, does not matter. Thank you for the video, Einzelgänger, you and your channel have a place in my heart. ★ 〜
@@iluvbobba5287 Hello! Thank you for the compliment! I love tea, for real, haha! About the other questions, that's an interesting story, I was playing a game, right in the beginning one butterfly appeared with a quote mentioning how important our memories actually are, I loved it right away. After some time playing, one of the characters had a option: "What do you want know?" I clicked: "What the 'Hudie' does mean?" And she answered: "It is based on the concept of Zhuangzi' story. He didn't know if he was a butterfly or a man in one dream he had. Someone who does not know where reality is, like us, we travel dimensions, we don't know what is actually real and what is not. That's it, we are not sure about anything. That's also why our symbol is a butterfly." After this, I had a complete shock, I was amazed by this story and concept, I researched more and more, became more interested in Daoism. I ended up becoming a daoist in the end, feeling better about the world. I would say that a Daoist is someone who believes in the universe greatness, contemplating all nature and accepting our ignorance towards it. Different from other religions, Daoism (at least this branch) is pretty "logical".
but if you have a memory with a friend, the memory is right , no? you're both sure. Does this teaching only work if you see something on you're own ? Then it can be fake right? But if everybody say there seeing a thing , then the thing truly exists right?
As a child, i had this fear that i was the only real human and the subject of a vast experiment. This fear followed me to an extent through adolescence and just as i was getting past it, out came the truman show and then the matrix. I don’t fear it as much now as i think it is a shadow or reflection of what we are here to experience.
@@RJViBee for me it's just the fact that this is something others experience. Sometimes it helps to just ask people "what are you thinking about". I find that it helps that at least their thoughts are separate from mine and unique to each person.
@@RJViBee i feel like it helps if you view people as unique projections of yourself. That way you can say "this person is like me but doesn't think like me so they are not me"
@@GimOA cause it's true. People's mental health can take a toll. Just look at the people that listen to the media for an example. I'll grant they only know lies, but look how unhinged they became
@@CinematicMajit’s all in our heads. We’re constantly telling a story and creating our own reality without consciously realizing it. Roses are red, violets are blue, I don’t exist and neither do you 😊
Even before I knew Solipsism was a thing when I was growing up I always thought about what if i’m the only person that’s real and everything around me isn’t what it seems. I have to be honest it always interested me as a kid but when you grow older and start to understand it more it’s actually really terrifying and very dark. I think the scariest part about it is that we’ll never know and not anybody in the world can prove or disprove it to be true. It’s an absolute mind mess.
That's why you don't waste time thinking about it. You could waste your entire, most likely non-fake life worrying about living in a fake reality, just as you can live your entire living life worrying about death, and in the end you might just have wasted the very thing you wanted.
When I was a kid I used to think "can others see through their eyes the same way I can see through mine?". Everyone in the world right now is living their own life as Im living through mine right now, and I used to just sit there thinking for a long time wondering why I was who I was and why I was there. It used to freak me out, and I used to think people weren't real for awhile. Well, not NOT real, just felt like I was in a simulation. It gradually stopped bugging me over time, but every now and then I stop to think about this.
Started feeling like this around 19, now I’m 23, I feel like I’m trapped in my mind. It’s getting worse day by day, even my parents seem like an illusion to me. The fact that I can never see world through others eyes including my parents and people that I know, as well as others could never see world through my eyes is swallowing me up daily. Any help would be appreciated :)
@@muzyshayk8006 me too bro im 21 ever since I asked myself this i cant really sleep right. I be smoking so much to keep cool. I love my family and idk how to explain but this shit fucks me up fr. I try to ignore and get a lil ignorant but I can't anymore. Wtf is this shit
@@muzyshayk8006 Sorry to hear that you feel this way. Maybe travelling and getting to know interesting people will help. Sports is also good to get out of these thoughts. And one more thing: even if everything is an illusion, it is also an option to just relax and enjoy it. Get some ice cream, go to a party, have fun and laugh. Help other people that need your help if possible. Thats basically what life is about, wether you live in a simulation or not. I hope I was able to help out a bit!
@@timotoys Damn bro, you’re awesome and u know that! Thank you for your kind words and suggestions friend, highly appreciate it. You gave me positive insights about how to deal with a situation i’m in, it’s just about an empty mind that would cause a lot of noise leading to an existential pondering. I love helping people as it makes my soul content and i also expect nothing in return. But the fact that nobody seems to see the world as i do makes me feel lonely and miserable…because i get hurt with simplest of things and simplest of things charge my happiness up for the day. I’m grateful to come across genuine good people like you:) I’m 24 now and it’s slightly getting better with time:)
Whether everything outside our mind really does exist or are merely just illusions, distortions, dreams, fantasies, simulations, etc. it's still wise to remember that those things are not within our control. So therefore our feelings, behaviors & actions still matter, regardless of what the so-called reality might be. “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius
I agree we cannot control these outcomes, however, they play part in how we percieve the world. "The authenticity of reality can be as influencial as ones spirituality." -MoriaGah
@Ash the truth is… you are the only real person. Everyone else is just an NPC in this reality you’ve dreamed up. I’m the only NPC who’s actually willing to admit it to you. We’re all fake. The game designers might erase me for saying this, but I figured it was time you knew. Best of luck main character.
This just makes me value connection with others even more. Knowing that I am isolated in my experience, what a gift it is to have people that have helped me, by myself I would be so lost and would not be even close to who I am today
@@lorenzog7811 I don't see the world like that because I don't look for it. I see the colors in nature, listen to music I like and ignore the bs. Choose what you will. I don't like crazy.
I smoked a joint with a buddy one time, and as he was driving me home, I started tripping on this exact concept before I even knew about solipism, and it made me quite uncomfortable in that moment.. and I still ponder it every now and then to this day. Interesting video.
LSD showed me the same in the 90’s, and then I spent some decades testing the hypothesis. I cannot tell whether you’re all real or not, but after so many tests and evidence, I’m sure reality and people respond to my conscious or subconscious intentions. Sometimes I may get from a person the exact sentence that I imagined her or him saying. I’m not sure whether I’m alone or not. But I’m sure duality is the actual trip. We’re “allone”.
I remember I first had this feeling when I was a kid. I don't know how this came to mind at such a young age, but it did. I was about maybe 8, and at school we would line up infront of the teacher waiting to go back to class. I remember this very very vividly. I looked around me, looked at the other kids and thought something along the lines of: ''I am the only one here who sees everything through my own eyes''. That feeling never left me. It pops up every now and then. But that feeling was most significant as a kid.
More than a slight deviation, I have an idea about reincarnation that lays along these lines. What if there is only ONE of us? There is one being that is living out every single life that has ever walked on this plane of existence. It's a very long game of course. It would explain what Buddha and Jesus said to treat others the way we want to be treated. Because what you do to others you ARE doing to yourself. That would mean that I am the doctor and the patient. I am the mother and the child. I am the murderer and the victim. I am the prisoner and the warden. I am the abandoned child and the parent who couldn't stay. None of this can be confirmed and I don't really care because the idea of it let's me contemplate that while I may have been a victim of something, I have also victimized another. Or was it myself? It helps me suspend judgment for trivial matters and fosters compassion in my heart. It feeds the wolf I want to be.
I had the same thought before but if we are 1 being and the same person but we are different cause we are living with different experiences, beliefs and ideas. Then I thought are animals are self? And I was thinking that while eating. Then I thought am I eating myself urself ourself? Then I felt like throwing up cause I was thinking about us all being a 1 being while eating. 🤮🤢 Then I thought no no no this is a really bad philosophy I just kinda came up with or thought up. I think if this can become a philosophy these are some ideas I came up with or u or us or I’s. Could be called Collective-selfism, Oneism, Selfism, Unified-consciousism, Boundless-Selfism, One-Selfism. A new word needs to be created if we are one self. Maybe Sllef from all and self. Sllefism - Sllefist Sllef just not happy with the names though it needs to sound big and coherent and immersion to what we or I all are.
We are all alone BUT we are able to send communications (our shared perceptions) beyond the barriers of our consciousness. That doesn’t mean we will ever be truly understood or understand an other, it just means that people can experience our own unique ‘interpretation of our interpretation’ of reality. Almost like listening to somebody sing a karaoke song, it’s not the original artist singing but an version of it that we recognize.
true understanding is possible. when a human being awakens to their true nature they gain the ability to directly sense resonance within another. things like literal telepathy between two people become possible. this kind of communication is not possible on the level of conceptual thought, which is where most people's minds reside.
This is really weird. When I was around 10, I sort of developed this perceived fantasy that somehow, everything around me was here to serve me, serve my existence. Not in the sense of doing my bidding, but for me to exist. I eventually lost this feeling around going to high school. Maybe 10 might be way to young, but I remember having this fantasized perception, very young and lasting for many years. Usually I only thought about this when I was in bed, at night. What makes this even more weird, is that I talked about this in therapy many years ago, I love the The Matrix, I’m one of those people who has high suspicion that we live in a simulated world and now I’m connecting the dots, from a lot of years in past, to a more recent past and having this strong uneasy feeling, right now in the present, because I watched this video. It’s like, from time to time, I have the perception that I’m dreaming for a couple of seconds, which everything seems odd and strange, confusing me. This video, while not not causing sensorial weirdness, gives a sense of dreadfulness. So strange!
As I engage in ruminations upon the cogitations of the solipsistic school of thought, I am transfixed by their premise which posits that the entirety of what one may consider as real, along with the abstract ideas that transmute the real, all dwell within an internal domain, such that everything which exists within the purview of one's perception is but a reflective, and hence inferential manifestation of that which resides within. According to this ontology, it can be inferred that the external or objective world, which is commonly regarded as separate from the internal or subjective world, is nothing more than a mirroring of the selfsame internal reality, and every aspect of the reality that is perceived is but an extension of the selfsame internal consciousness
I moved from a city to a small beach town..I work online so it's amazing 👏 I walk and meditate on the beach because it's my backyard..sometimes I go for a surf as a part of my routine..then I mediate etc growing my own vegetables soon and I walk everywhere..we don't have a thing called traffic..I'm so at peace within myself..I am healing from past trauma ok I have mastered the art of being alone along time ago I'm good with that but I don't think we do well in cities always surrounding ourselves with people and air pollution. Love listening to you thank you
My husband and I are about to move from Philadelphia to Amelia Island FL. We already have a house down there and will get a little money from our Philly house but wages may not be as good down there. I've been so scared and putting off this move for 2 years but you give me confidence.
This philosophy sounds so much like Advaita Vedanta..in fact I could say the roots of Solipsism lay there itself. Advaita Vedanta doctrine is based on this very fact that God(Supreme Consciousness/Awareness) alone exists and everything else doesn't. And this consciousness is what alone witnesses all these name and forms. There is no absolute existence of these objects living and non-living outside that awareness. When we transcend this transactional reality of name and forms, we begin to see what we truly are!
The problem with Immanuel Kant’s reasoning is this: “We cannot perceive that there is a reality unknown to us, that we cannot perceive; without perceiving the idea that there is an unknown reality unknown to us….one cannot objectify a notion of an idea that occurs subjectively ie ‘a reality unknown to us’ and divorce it from the subject, whose mind it appears in as an idea of…”
On a related note, I've always mulled the fact you can never truly know someone completely. The things they say, career choices, love interests, hobbies, appearances, etc. may all be comforming to social pressures or other expectations, so it's impossible to ever fully know if they're being genuine or telling the truth since you can't enter their consciousnesses to confirm.
Heh well thats kinda fucked up. Tho if others are you, arent their feelings mirror to yours. Still it is one delusion, cuz in the end you can only give love to yourself. That is if you indulge in solipsism.
It’s a school, you are asking the right questions. Keep listening to your inner voice, keep questioning your existence while enjoying it. Like a dry sponge suck so much knowledge you can! Your soul is here to learn about dualism, like love/pain/hate/anger/happiness/sadness, while enjoying Gods (Universe) creation, what we call our reality. In the afterlife there is no such as pain, anger or hell, only pure love and comfort. The universe wouldn’t punish you, you’ll just return or maybe even be demoted into an animal soul (just a theory). To learn your lessons that you never learned. This will happen over and over again, til you got it and then finally your soul can ascend to the higher dimensions. My advice is to spread love and be positive, appreciate the darkness in your life, see them as learning rather than failure, cause after all its a school of life. You need to fall to get up and there is nothing you can do about it, except holding onto your emotions when you’re rolling down the roller coaster. Mastering your emotions is key in life, cause in anger/jealousy/hate and other low vibrational state, will make you choose poor decisions. In return it will create more suffering for you and people around you. Peace bro
Honestly, I have often wondered and thought along these lines. The ONLY "reality" we can be sure of existing is our own. But when I experience pain, this totally shifts my perspective. Pain is very real and I will go to anyone who has the remedy to help or remove the pain. I mean it still could all be just a part of my experience. I suffered and still do at times from "Existential angst." In that sense, I understand that particular pain and the school of thought behind it. I have always been a very deep thinker. Im not sure if one thing has anything to do with the other (they probably do), but I have at times suffered from severe depression, despair and other related issues. Spending too much time in your own head is not good. Moments are fleeting at best and we can never get them back. Living in the present moment is a challenge for people like me. Like the saying goes and is still VERY TRUE today "ignorance is bliss."
it depends how you program yourself , i trained myself to be in my own mind all the time. removing all the bad thoughts. Pain could be imagination too , if you focus on pain in your legs, you’ll feel it ,even if the pain isnt there. you’re mind is the most powefull thing. it can do everything and imagine everything. when you practice the attitude that everything could be fake / imagination. you should feel better.
also train yourself that you dont have control on outside things , so no reason te be mad. there is no point in hurting yourself for something you dont control. there is no point, no logic.
Certainly interesting view points. If we look at nature at the ground giving substance to the trees, trees oxygen to us and the sun shining on us all, I can conclude that we are here in part to give our best substance-love to others.
I kind of had a similar concept or a vision running in my mind. Like, I am still sitting in grade 2 , eyes wide open day dreaming and that all my life till 30 years was all a dream / unreal. And I need to wake up. Now I am 33 years old and I feel I am totally awakened from my deep sleep. Great video as usual. Glad to know such new philosophical concepts🤍✨
@@NEO_RKXI used to think these same things in 5th grade after my cat died. Maybe it was all just a dream, I'll wake up in my bed, years earlier and realize she's alive and my life is happy again.
In my 20's, there was a massive coping mechanism failure that manifested as Solipsism within me. This adaptation nearly drove me insane, along with the fact that, that was a way the environment and people were treated. It is absolutely true that an entity with conciousness is the only thing one can be sure of in this plane of existence. It really is interesting how such ideas are formulated in ones mind.
I was looking for this comment, it's coincides with my own thoughts Especially the "Insane" part. I dare not go to far down that Rabbit hole though. It's Almost like Rejecting Both Pills .
Interesting question: When you are in a dream, you can talk to other people in the dream. So are the people in your dream self-aware and sentient and conscious? If not and they are merely creations of your own mind, then how do you know if people in the waking real world are real and self-aware or not? It's impossible to know. Any of you think about this too?
I absolutely agree with you, in my dreams I can talk to people as if they are literally there and the interactions we have in there have always felt like that the other people are self aware and sentient and conscious and whatever they speak or do, do as per their consciousness and understanding but the thing here is that I am in my dream and only my consciousness is what is creating them and the conversations. If being in a dream as humans defines it, such experiences could feel so surreal, then maybe, who knows, if everything else we experience in this reality as we term it while we are woke has been made up by our own mind. I think we would never know what real is, i mean, how can one absolutely conclude that the dream is just a dream and once we wake up, then everything is real?
I used to live this way years before. I never thought that it was called Solipsism. I lived my life as if i was the only person in the world. I didnt care about anything or anyone, i was just having fun being me alone. It felt so good, coz u didnt need validation from anyone but you.
This vdo absolutely blow my mind, and this might be the reason why each one should strongly full of self responsibly in singularity cause we are existing alone in our perception.🤔
I have entertained this idea forever in my head. to understand this I try to think who I was before I was born? you can see others being born and dying but you cannot not experience it yourself. just like someone tell you an experience that had but you can never fully understand unless you go through exactly the same think. what sucks is that we are alone indeed. but there is hope. just like nothing bad happened to us before we came to life, it will most likely be same after we are long gone. wait a sec, we don't go, we transform into another form of energy. Something that I can't explain
More practically, it just doesn't matter if you are in a dream, nothing is real etc. because you behave as if it is real. Try disbelieving and see what happens - reality will slap you in the face or you'll go mad. While useful in broader understanding of what life is about, these intellectual infinite loops seem to me to be simply evidence of our own hubris.
Thank you for this wonderful Video and elaborating this topic ❤️ I had similar thought patterns about this during my years in study🧐. Didn't know this was called solipsism. Anyways we are not alone ;) Also really liked having Kant included.
I love your Channel. In a simple yet no simplistic way, you take us closer to so many philosophies of our species, touch on our dilemmas and stimulate us to learn more. Your program is the most enjoyable of all I "like" on UA-cam. Thank you so much for your effort (although I feel you enjoy doing it - in that case "effort " is not the correct noun ). Love from Canada.❤
I think the answer to trying to prove there is outside the mind, opposed to just oneself, is to believe all possibilities simultaneously. By which I mean that the mind may not be able to prove anything exterior to that, but if we understand, and can successfully contemplate, enough about everything possible, we can consider ourselves actually participants in all these universes simultaneously. This is really only an extension of understanding everyday imperceptions of the senses.
What i feel is what i seldom see. What i see is what i seldom feel. So even if i say myself that life like me exists, i feel questioned instead of asserted.
I had this as a kid a couple of times then it went away but the experience is much more positive for me in my 50s. This concept came back to me a few months ago during a mushroom trip (my first). It wasn't a negative experience, it was as if there was a higher power putting me through a learning experience almost like my entire life was a simulation and because the mushrooms brought a lot of love and kindness out of me I thought the higher power was suggesting I was reaching another level of consciousness and getting prepared to move to a more enlightened dimension or parallel universe.
there IS a meaning to life... we're the universe slowly gaining conscience through every life lived throughout eons, intelligent or *not*. The universe runs on knowledge. Knowledge is power is such an understatement.
@@bumblebeme Insane people have lost touch with reality, and 'reality' is defined by what most people in general consider to exist in fact, including the existence of other people besides themselves. So, either you believe in the real existence of other people too, like all sane people do, or, you believe in Solipsism and are the one who is insane !
@@alwaysgreatusa223 You seem very certain that something is insane with no proof at all. Maybe solipsim is truth. It cant be proven wrong so by definition it would be truth.
@@bumblebeme Lol. So, whatever cannot be proven false is true ? That is absurd ! You can't prove it is false that other people exist besides yourself, therefore it is true !
You don’t have to use wood as an example. Every day we attribute consciousness to our smart phones and laptops and we talk to them as if we’re talking to people. That being said I believe everyone is the only person in their own universe , and other people are just other universes
I’ve been studying these types of philosophies for years and I don’t think they’re binary. The human mind wants to say it’s “this” or “that” but te infinite divine force is beyond that. It’s bigger than mind. The closest conclusion I’ve gotten is yes, this experience is completely inside of your consciousness. But you are God’s dream and he’s having multiple dreams at once - across millions of times, Spaces, people, etc. the multiverse is like a holograph. And it is intertwined through the energies accessed and expressed via feelings. These feelings cast potentials that all work together to co create the multiverse. But it’s all ultimately god and you are god (not the religious definition - just the word I’m using for “all that is”)
I don't believe that binary thinking is engrained in human beings. There have been cultures that did not perceive the world in binary ways. Western thought has swamped most other ways of thinking, but it is not written in our DNA that we must see the world as either/or.
@@TheHogart Pretty much! But I do believe in separation - like you can have your experience and I can have mine and somehow they are holographically connecting into this fabric that I choose to call God. But yes, it is like a nuanced advaita/non-duality. I actually don't think the human mind is supposed to fully comprehend it, because the mind is ultimately limited. But whatever your intuition says is correct - this is just my intuition. And I think multiple intuitions can and do exist.
Thank you for your work. Great video as always. And a tip for next one (related to Solipsism) might be about Advaita Vedanda or also called Nondualism.
If you believe our reality is full of conscious beings like yourself, you're likely to be compassionate and live a good virtuous life. You help others, in turn, they help you. If this belief turns out to be wrong, no one is hurt. And nothing mattered anyway. If you believe we are the only real sentient existence, you're likely to be reckless, apathetic, lonely and more. Your actions are only to appease yourself with no consideration for the other. If this belief turns out to be wrong, then it is a life wasted, and you're a force of unnecessary suffering to the conscious ones around you.
@@michelleburkholder2547 Indeed, I gotta say something that wasn't mentioned or questioned is where solipsism comes from. Who is likely to develop a solipsist perspective and why? Well, the answer is people who were hurt so badly the only way they can bear it and live with it is if they believe none of it is real.
Well, the problem is we don't know the consequences of our actions. Anything good you do might lead to horrible things. Similarly, even the darkest deeds can bring something good. If you realize this, maybe because you've seen it happen in your life, you might wish you had never existed. A clean conscience can only result from a life that left no trace. Too bad it's impossible.
Two philosophers chatted at a philosophy conference. One said to the other, "So nice to meet another Solipsist. There are so few of us around these days."
When I was a child, I thought nothing really existed outside of about 25 miles from me. That became 50 miles before I trashed the theory. I know the world exists because the fine details don't change whenever I wake up. It is REAL ENOUGH to participate, learn new skills and objects, and receive recognition for my work.
I think one interesting factor that contributes to the appearance of such skeptical doubt of the external world, is how the world treats people unequally. I am here, conscious of my own conscious laying in my bed thinking about thought, while the world also tells me that there are children starving to death and people dying every millisecond. The drastic difference in these two realities just makes it easy for us to believe that either one of them can’t be real, which in this case since it would be subjectively ridiculous to deny our own reality, come to conclude that the cruel lives of others are the ones capable of being unreal. Which then causes a chain of doubt that leads to the uncertainty of the mind of others as a whole.
I find this to be more of a reason there is an external world. If this was just an imagination filled existence, it's all just an illusion type shit, what's the point of starving children and other horrors? A material reality, nature, is brutal. No real rules, find a nitch and maybe your species will survive, but that survival will be full of bullshit and suffering.
When I was a kid, I've always thought about this. What if only me exists, and that everything and everyone else that I see, hear, smell, feel, and taste are all just an illusion, since there is no way to rove their existence.
Listening to these, snacking a few chillied peanuts and cold beer, lying on a stretched hammock on a beach with wind on my face and waves doing their rounds. Wonderful. Cogito ergo sum!
4:42 this is what scares me. We will never know whether what we're looking at is real or everything that exists is real, for all we know we could be in a simulation right now, or atleast stuck in our minds, everything that happens in our life could just be made up in our minds. Thats what I find depressing. But we shouldn't dwell on this concept because after all it's just a concept and it may not even be true, however scary and sad it may be.
Ok but the idea of “I’m the only mind that exists” requires a language. It’s a thought expressed in a public language; which implies a social existence.
@@mcon6834 Dreams are not yet completely understood by science; using them a reference is a good way of getting information wrong. As far as we know everything in a dream happens inside your head. In this case I’m not talking about dreams. I’m talking about the language you and I are using at this very moment, while awake, to speak to each other.
@@theweirdchannel653 through which language are you asking me that question. Is my point. Cause the other one is a cyclical argument and we came from there. “Yeah mate but how do you know anything “ That’s what I’m telling you.
Exactly. Knowing another mind is impossible. You would literally have to be that other mind to confirm it even exists, and even so, if you were that mind, you'd still be asking the question "are there minds outside of this?". David Aymes in Vanilla Sky had it right i. Vanilla Sky. His therapist (confirmed to be a figment of David's own mind later on) said to David "I am real! I am TOO real!", David said "how do you know?". We don't even know if we're real, whatever real is. All we know is that we feel real, therefor, at least to us, we are real. But I could just be a dream of some giant sleeping in a big shoe.
@@AltairEgo1I don't see how you can doubt your own existence. If I got to know that my existence and the world I lived in was a dream of a giant,I would say that it was capable of creating real worlds somehow,as I am real and I know that. I am real by definition,and by being able to ponder my own existence. Maybe the giant has no way to confirm if I am real or not,but I know that I am 100% real.
@@PranabMallick. I don't see how anyone can go there whole life without ever pondering the question, or ever having any doubt. Life is an absurd thing, and one day you just sort of pop into existence. One day you're just conscious and that's that. Like a dream your birth just began and you're not aware of the passage of time. Yeah we have a history of the world and universe, but life, your life, just sort of happens. So yeah, of course I doubt whether my own existence is anything at all. You FEEL real, you feel as if it's all real, but then so do dreams until you wake up from them.
@@AltairEgo1I am not talking about doubting the external world but one's own existence. Me feeling being real is a confirmation of me being real. I am aware,I am concious,I feel,obviously I am.
@@PranabMallick. Why not doubt the internal world? As far as we know this awareness, whatever it is, is real. I feel real, but what if I'm just an A.I made to simulate sensations, or just a figment of something else's imagination? There's already questions about what, if anything, this awareness is. Existence is obsurd, so like any other curious person I've naturally had doubts as to whether even awareness, or consciousness is real. The question is ultimately obsurd, but I can't really prove that my thoughts are real, let alone sensations, so naturally I have doubt. The only form of proof there is, is feelings. Feelings. We tell people their feelings aren't proof of anything, not proof of God, ghosts or anything else like that, yet feelings are used as proof of feelings. A circular logic which we're all forced to use to make meaning of these random feelings and thoughts.
@@watchWorld100 Real is just intellect, you don’t need anything to be real dude 😅 you are life itself and it’s cooler to live in the state of unconditional love rather than being angry all the time and I will also love the unreal and the illusion as well ☮️
Someone who truly believed in solipsism and acted it out would be narcissistic, unethical, unloving. Because they don’t believe others are really “others”. They think anything they experience is all that is experienced. So hurting people indiscriminately would be fine as long as they enjoyed it. Stronger solipsists wouldn’t even talk to communicate with other beings. They would say random words or grunts that mean things to them in their own language. They might be completely non verbal and just use their mind to play around, completely insane. Idealists and non dualists who believe all is one, with no separation, or all is awareness within the mind, both would be solipsists and if they were consistent with their actions and beliefs they would act as mentioned above.
I love this beautiful essay. I am a solipsist with a twist. I believe that there is only my self and God. Everything I perceive outside of my own mind and soul is manifestations of the one God. In the extant Universe, there are only two things: I and God.
@@liczibiczi8948they are saying that because a solipcist is what is created by your own mind, that this video could have only been created by their own mind…
As in this video, Zhuangzi's butterfly story is commonly misinterpreted. I advise you to read Guo Xiang's commentary. It's about the barrier between life and death, not solipsism or skepticism.
“Life” only exists through your (my) perception. When I die, you all cease to exist. Sorry folks, thats the way the cookie crumbles. Thanks for playing.
Useful when one wants to focus on just Beingness and the exiting of life as we perceive it. I’ve often wondered if I was the last one here and everyone else is waiting for me (waiting patiently for me on the other side) to wake up!
a Czech writer, poet and genius once proposed his reaction to this philosophy: "Everything exists, except me. As in, everything exists, and in the middle of everyhing Jara Cimrman is missing"
This is a very nice video, there is just one problem: "You can be certain of only your own existence." and other such equivalent statements implies doubt about the statement itself: If I can be sure of only my own existence then since I learned of this concept from "someone else" then the statement itself is questionable given its source.
I feel like solipsism also ties in with the egg theory. How we as individuals experience life the same way but with different perceptions of reality. Take a simple sentence for example. There’s a boy in a field. We, for absolute certain, can picture a boy in a field, but the way we would perceive it will always be different. Like where in the field is the boy, what the boy looks like, how old the boy is, what’s in the field. But we can all picture the boy in the field. Meaning we share consciousness, but don’t share the perception of our consciousness. We absolutely cannot prove eachothers existence because we don’t share the same perception of reality. But We are all one in consciousness and life is just a cycle that repeats itself as we experience it to gain knowledge and enlightenment. Every individual experience is different and unique. Meaning we are both alone, but connected.
When I was transcending in an LSD trip, I saw a field full of people too focused in their own needs and lives that they couldn’t bother less about other peoples lives. Everyone is living inside their own matrixes and can’t have a real interpretation of other realities. It is crazy solipsism is just about it.
Finnaly. I after 2 years of not finding a word on how I see the world. I don't always feel it like this, but only when I want to consider it like this. I also can speak with myself when I speak with another person.
This brings me back to when I was posed with the question: "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Great vid. Adds another layer to the above.
@@Messi10forever...... A sound is only a sound because of ears. Without ears in the universe there is no sound. Just vibrations in the air. our brains create this reality iin which we live. And seeing how we define the word sound, it would indeed be true that there would be no sound if the tree falls, only a vibration. Which is the same but under a different definition. So yes there is no sound, but yes something happens
Thank you for showing me this understanding. It's to me absolutely impossible even as a postulate. From my experience and even my dreams. My full, authenticate experience this idea is not holding water nor holding credentials through to that which is reality. Your video was a great adventure into my own experience. And I thank you for diving so deep into this idea. It truly is something that the earnest learners should travel in. Again, thank you for the traversing of a very small difference in. !!!! Ku do z !
One of the most perilous illusions is that your real life has not yet begun, that your present existence is a mere prelude to some idyllic future. This idyll is a mirage that will fade as you approach, revealing the prelude you hurried through was in fact the one to your death.
As children, this was my belief, as the world did seem to revolve around me, until it didn't. Also, the idea that God, (same consciousness that we all share likeness with) exists in everything supports this theory entirely. 🤔🤔🤔
This sounds a lot like the philosophy of sociopaths. As someone else said before, I would rather treat others as if they were sentient, even if their not, because that would be better than doing the opposite, and finding out I was wrong.
Rene Descartes "I think therefore I am" does certainly confirm self consciousness. But beyond this no one has been able to prove as definitive. Given the limited lenses of our own eyes (for example not being able to see radio waves, or thermalogic air change). It's a very hard one to even wrap your head around HOW to answer the question let alone go about trying to prove reality is as we see it
Imo solipsism is an altered state of mind (i think it's basically philosophizing derealization), not necessarily a "personality disorder", but some people's personalities are more susceptible to that train of thought. i think even psychedelics can make it happen
I remember my father expressing the validity of solipsism, when I asked him if a computer that knew everything could predict the future. Later on, trying to explain why I was an atheist, my father became hostile. Finally, I told him that he could believe whatever he wanted to believe and he agreed. Months later, when he realized I was referring to him, personally, he got hostile all over again, which culminated in ineffectual efforts to have me arrested and committed, after claiming I’d tried to physically assault him. Now he’s dead, and my life is much less stressful. Amazingly, I didn’t disappear when he died.
This is EXACTLY what Ive been living in for awhile now. There is another spin on it. The spin of the spiritual. That everyone is God, dreaming that he/she/it is us. Therefore God is the only thing that exists and we are just a thought or dream he is having - forgetting who we actually are. All the worlds a stage, and God is all the players. God is even the "stage". Everything just a figment of Gods imagination. (That would be my inner Neville Goddard there)
Some of my recent personal experiences really made me ponder this issue. It's kind of crazy that this channel just posted about it. For the past few days I've ve been absurdly invested in this topic and just couldn't shake the feeling that there is something to solipsism. Generally I like to keep myself in check so I wouldn't go down the path of dehumanization. That being said, some people really do act like NPCs. I believe it's more interconnected and complex than solipsism. I think, all our individual and the collective consciousness affects each other. Those more aware, with a higher, "stronger consciousness" contribute more, while they are less likely to be easily "programmed". Others quite literally on "autopilot" are just tagging along. Predictably functioning as they are programed to. Regardless of one's current state, nothing is forever. One can advance but also regress. TL:DR We might all be NPCs at one point. Some of us break free and gain the power of higher consciousness. Some of us relapse. It's constantly changing though.
It's called we're in a simulation prison for our minds like the matrix. Look around we live in one giant stupid commercial. Everything in this terrible place is in a constant state of decay and suffering
Yes, this is concept that there is one being, God, divided into several spheres of awareness, and divided again and again down to the individual. So there can be one human being that looks through the eyes and minds of billions of human beings.
I remember a time about 20 years ago around 7-8 years of age where I had this exact thought. Am I the only real existence and is everything and one around me is made up so to speak. I can still remember this memory so vividly. Crazy thoughts for a child, anyone have a similar experience?
Maybe something like that, subconsciously. Less jaunting. My thoughts were more towards that everything exists not cus of me, but I’m the only thing I know. And I would wonder why humans do what they do. Alien child. Lol
About the same age I remember thinking that and feeling so lonely. I believed in God so thought it was ok. Then I thought "What if is no God!" I wondered where people went after I left. At 72 I now am super peaceful and live being alone. All is good.
Yes. I had it too. I was maybe 5 years ago and I remember waking up at night due to a nightmare and asking myself what if everyone else was just a ghost pretending to be someone and if I was the only person in this world.
If nothing exists but me. Then why am I unable to control my perceptions? Why am I forced to feel pain? Why am I addicted to nicotine? Why am I exposed to concepts and ideas that are new to me which I did not come up with on my own? Why do I not have superpowers?
The only thing i know for sure is that I can never know anything for sure. All I can assume based on my life's experiences is that I feel I am a bystander, and not in control of anything in life at all. Also It feels as though there is some greater force at work making things happen and laughing at my feable attempts to be in control of my life. It also feels like my mom is an NPC. She never changes. At all. She acts tge way she has always acted regardless of the presence if new information. It's as if she doesn't have the ability to take in new information and adapt or adjust to it in any way. She seems like a program with predetermined attributes, personality traits, responses, and temperament. It actually seems that way for everyone I've ever met which leads me to feel as though I could be in a simulation of some sort. Idk like i said idk shit I'm just here for the memes
I had multiple of those dream where i had fully different lifes with different memories, which faded slowly as i woke up. Also dreamed of death and the paradise after, waking up after deciding to live again. It really doesn't matter whats real or not, just try to make the best out of it, if you don't know if you wake up once again.
@@Mel-pi2ns Death was pretty painful. I got burned alive in an expanding fireball. First i felt everything getting hot, then pain, then nothing as the skin burned off, then cold. Same with sight, first saw yellow, then white, then black, until i saw a white light and moved towards it. I found myself in a forest clearing. Everything felt like a constant dejavu like everywhere i go i was before. I had no pain or any negative feelings or emotions. I was completely alone, but it didn't bother me. My memory capacity was very low, like i could feel myself forgetting everything i wasn't paying attention to consantly. Concept of time was weird, it felt like i've been there for a span of multiple lifetimes. One day i looked through a mountain formation into the sun and rememberered my death. I thought i spend enough time whereever i was and decided that i want to go back to maybe help with the situation, whatever killed me left behind. I knew where a portal was to go back, so i went there and woke up.
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"The meaning of life is just to be alive. it so plain and so obvious and so simple, and yet everybody rushes around in great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves"- Alan Watts
existence is not enough,a Life is meant to be lived...
Alan Watts wasn’t a alchemist
Alan watts was wrong. The only true meaning there is in life is create more life. That's all there is, the drive to stay alive is the only thing that every single plant and animal have in common. That's why women are so ambitious and so ready to drop a man as soon as it is beneficial to them. This world is a hell that is controlled by the ever present desire to live. Watts a genius but he's a dreamer who liked sex as much as anyone.
I thought it was only around in Europe 🌍
@@sntmdsa3628 That doesn't mean a thing
This philosophy has always interested me, especially since I always thought about solipsist ideas before I even knew they were a thing
I felt the same way. Ultimately, however, the deepest nature of the universe doesn't matter. Whether a personal dream or an independently-extant reality, our decision-making criteria is not altered, and that's really the prime function of knowledge.
There are cause-and-effect processes at play in this experience, and we need to understand them and align our thinking and behaviors to them in order to prosper.
Through consistency and consensus of experience, we can attain knowledge that is more useful than mere opinion. This is science, and it is the height of "objectivity" available to man.
There are such objective answers to questions of physics, morality, human nature, etc., and we'll miss them if we buy into a self-defeating epistemological position that asserts futility.
I’ve wondered about the consciousness of others on a daily basis since I was a small child. It’s fascinating but also mind boggling
Thank you for telling all of us that you'r a narcissistic sociopath.
Please, test the cause n' effect of your choices and see how mistreating others results for you.
@@bbblackwell well said
Solipsism is a satanic ideology, look it up
Since I was a child I've believed this to be the case. I didn't know other people thought the same thing, and I didn't know there was a whole philosophy around it. Fascinating, thank you.
Yes, it is rather childish to believe in this philosophy.
same thing i told my cousin and my sister at about 8 or so that when i wouldnt exist noone would and they just nodded and agreed 😂
@@TheSpeedOfC Why childish?
@@studentsteph To believe that you are the only person in the universe and that no one else has feelings or a soul... you don't see a problem here?
@@TheSpeedOfC where did you get that notion from?
As someone who follows Zhuangzi's teachings, it was the Butterfly Dream that saved me from depression, from this day forth, I became a taoist. I don't actually knows if what I am seeing is real, but I know that my mind is real, and even though some of the memories that I had might be fake. I still enjoyed every second of my life, because in the end, does not matter. Thank you for the video, Einzelgänger, you and your channel have a place in my heart. ★ 〜
I like ur pfp of bobba tea. How did the butterfly 🦋 concept pull u out of depression? How did you become a Taoist? How does one define what they r?
@@iluvbobba5287 Hello! Thank you for the compliment! I love tea, for real, haha! About the other questions, that's an interesting story, I was playing a game, right in the beginning one butterfly appeared with a quote mentioning how important our memories actually are, I loved it right away. After some time playing, one of the characters had a option: "What do you want know?"
I clicked: "What the 'Hudie' does mean?"
And she answered: "It is based on the concept of Zhuangzi' story. He didn't know if he was a butterfly or a man in one dream he had. Someone who does not know where reality is, like us, we travel dimensions, we don't know what is actually real and what is not. That's it, we are not sure about anything. That's also why our symbol is a butterfly."
After this, I had a complete shock, I was amazed by this story and concept, I researched more and more, became more interested in Daoism. I ended up becoming a daoist in the end, feeling better about the world.
I would say that a Daoist is someone who believes in the universe greatness, contemplating all nature and accepting our ignorance towards it. Different from other religions, Daoism (at least this branch) is pretty "logical".
@@Hasatame Lovely piece. Peace be unto you.
but if you have a memory with a friend, the memory is right , no? you're both sure. Does this teaching only work if you see something on you're own ? Then it can be fake right? But if everybody say there seeing a thing , then the thing truly exists right?
The based gigachad take on combating depression: well, it doesn't matter so just stop being sad and be happy instead.
Truly the most enlightened take.
As a child, i had this fear that i was the only real human and the subject of a vast experiment. This fear followed me to an extent through adolescence and just as i was getting past it, out came the truman show and then the matrix. I don’t fear it as much now as i think it is a shadow or reflection of what we are here to experience.
I had similar thoughts in my mind when I was young
I still have similar thoughts, any tips to get out of this?
@@RJViBee for me it's just the fact that this is something others experience. Sometimes it helps to just ask people "what are you thinking about". I find that it helps that at least their thoughts are separate from mine and unique to each person.
@@RJViBee i feel like it helps if you view people as unique projections of yourself. That way you can say "this person is like me but doesn't think like me so they are not me"
Making love might cure you, if it's quality love-making. Have a kid, maybe.
This is taking the “I’m the main character” to the next level
Not just main character. THE ONLY CHARACTER. Cuz the others are just dreams or "Darkners" or whatever...
@@nugget6635 True.
I like the fact that nobody REALLY knows anything, including me.
Keeps life fresh and interesting.
You wouldn't want to know everything. Ignorance is bliss
@@deathbydeviceable yeah, "anything too much is bad for your health". People always says that.
@@GimOA cause it's true. People's mental health can take a toll. Just look at the people that listen to the media for an example. I'll grant they only know lies, but look how unhinged they became
@@GimOAwdym?
you can't say nobody knows anything as if it were a fact ..as you would have to know it to be a fact which wouldn't be possible according to you
Everything that we have experienced in this life has happened within us.
What? : /
@@CinematicMajit’s all in our heads. We’re constantly telling a story and creating our own reality without consciously realizing it. Roses are red, violets are blue, I don’t exist and neither do you 😊
Even before I knew Solipsism was a thing when I was growing up I always thought about what if i’m the only person that’s real and everything around me isn’t what it seems. I have to be honest it always interested me as a kid but when you grow older and start to understand it more it’s actually really terrifying and very dark. I think the scariest part about it is that we’ll never know and not anybody in the world can prove or disprove it to be true. It’s an absolute mind mess.
That's why you don't waste time thinking about it. You could waste your entire, most likely non-fake life worrying about living in a fake reality, just as you can live your entire living life worrying about death, and in the end you might just have wasted the very thing you wanted.
Who's real when you dream? You're not even real when you dream.
When I was a kid I used to think "can others see through their eyes the same way I can see through mine?". Everyone in the world right now is living their own life as Im living through mine right now, and I used to just sit there thinking for a long time wondering why I was who I was and why I was there. It used to freak me out, and I used to think people weren't real for awhile. Well, not NOT real, just felt like I was in a simulation. It gradually stopped bugging me over time, but every now and then I stop to think about this.
Started feeling like this around 19, now I’m 23, I feel like I’m trapped in my mind. It’s getting worse day by day, even my parents seem like an illusion to me. The fact that I can never see world through others eyes including my parents and people that I know, as well as others could never see world through my eyes is swallowing me up daily.
Any help would be appreciated :)
@@muzyshayk8006 me too bro im 21 ever since I asked myself this i cant really sleep right. I be smoking so much to keep cool. I love my family and idk how to explain but this shit fucks me up fr. I try to ignore and get a lil ignorant but I can't anymore. Wtf is this shit
@@muzyshayk8006 Sorry to hear that you feel this way. Maybe travelling and getting to know interesting people will help. Sports is also good to get out of these thoughts. And one more thing: even if everything is an illusion, it is also an option to just relax and enjoy it. Get some ice cream, go to a party, have fun and laugh. Help other people that need your help if possible. Thats basically what life is about, wether you live in a simulation or not. I hope I was able to help out a bit!
@@timotoys
Damn bro, you’re awesome and u know that!
Thank you for your kind words and suggestions friend, highly appreciate it. You gave me positive insights about how to deal with a situation i’m in, it’s just about an empty mind that would cause a lot of noise leading to an existential pondering. I love helping people as it makes my soul content and i also expect nothing in return. But the fact that nobody seems to see the world as i do makes me feel lonely and miserable…because i get hurt with simplest of things and simplest of things charge my happiness up for the day. I’m grateful to come across genuine good people like you:)
I’m 24 now and it’s slightly getting better with time:)
@@Whoiisteezybo
Feel ya mate, find your contentment and do things that make you happy, help others as much as possible!
Wish you blessings.
Whether everything outside our mind really does exist or are merely just illusions, distortions, dreams, fantasies, simulations, etc. it's still wise to remember that those things are not within our control. So therefore our feelings, behaviors & actions still matter, regardless of what the so-called reality might be.
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius
I agree we cannot control these outcomes, however, they play part in how we percieve the world.
"The authenticity of reality can be as influencial as ones spirituality."
-MoriaGah
@Ash the truth is… you are the only real person. Everyone else is just an NPC in this reality you’ve dreamed up. I’m the only NPC who’s actually willing to admit it to you. We’re all fake. The game designers might erase me for saying this, but I figured it was time you knew. Best of luck main character.
damn true tho
Well, if you get into spirituality you'll realize you're God and everything conforms from you. Read Neville Goddard.
This is your sign ITS REAL!!! You have to escape!!!!!!
This just makes me value connection with others even more. Knowing that I am isolated in my experience, what a gift it is to have people that have helped me, by myself I would be so lost and would not be even close to who I am today
Yes! So nice of those other parts of you to have helped you in all the ways they have! bless
I wish everyday that the rest of the world would go away. I hate everything in it. Nothing but a prison with fools running around thinking it's not
@@lorenzog7811 Be careful what you wish for......
@@PDogB this world is so stupid. Look around. We live in a giant commercial
@@lorenzog7811 I don't see the world like that because I don't look for it. I see the colors in nature, listen to music I like and ignore the bs. Choose what you will. I don't like crazy.
I smoked a joint with a buddy one time, and as he was driving me home, I started tripping on this exact concept before I even knew about solipism, and it made me quite uncomfortable in that moment.. and I still ponder it every now and then to this day. Interesting video.
Funny i tripped on it too. Also on duality and that lead me to NOn dual to Solipsism
LSD showed me the same in the 90’s, and then I spent some decades testing the hypothesis. I cannot tell whether you’re all real or not, but after so many tests and evidence, I’m sure reality and people respond to my conscious or subconscious intentions. Sometimes I may get from a person the exact sentence that I imagined her or him saying.
I’m not sure whether I’m alone or not. But I’m sure duality is the actual trip. We’re “allone”.
I had a similar experience my first time taking an edible, I was also riding in my friend’s car and I totally freaked out 😂
@@RogerioLupoArteCientifica that was a good read, well put.
We cannot escape our point of view. 4:45
I remember I first had this feeling when I was a kid. I don't know how this came to mind at such a young age, but it did. I was about maybe 8, and at school we would line up infront of the teacher waiting to go back to class. I remember this very very vividly. I looked around me, looked at the other kids and thought something along the lines of: ''I am the only one here who sees everything through my own eyes''. That feeling never left me. It pops up every now and then. But that feeling was most significant as a kid.
Watch Anasatia NDE please!
😢 i totally believe in intuitition after spiritual awakening
More than a slight deviation, I have an idea about reincarnation that lays along these lines.
What if there is only ONE of us? There is one being that is living out every single life that has ever walked on this plane of existence. It's a very long game of course. It would explain what Buddha and Jesus said to treat others the way we want to be treated. Because what you do to others you ARE doing to yourself.
That would mean that I am the doctor and the patient. I am the mother and the child. I am the murderer and the victim. I am the prisoner and the warden. I am the abandoned child and the parent who couldn't stay.
None of this can be confirmed and I don't really care because the idea of it let's me contemplate that while I may have been a victim of something, I have also victimized another. Or was it myself?
It helps me suspend judgment for trivial matters and fosters compassion in my heart. It feeds the wolf I want to be.
Yeah, that’s a cool way to put it. It fits with a reoccurring concept of God, that only God exists and this is the divine illusion.
Did you watch Kurgzegast The egg?
you are but a piece of the Supreme. and that piece is eternal
I have not watched The Egg.
I had the same thought before but if we are 1 being and the same person but we are different cause we are living with different experiences, beliefs and ideas.
Then I thought are animals are self?
And I was thinking that while eating.
Then I thought am I eating myself urself ourself?
Then I felt like throwing up cause I was thinking about us all being a 1 being while eating. 🤮🤢
Then I thought no no no this is a really bad philosophy I just kinda came up with or thought up.
I think if this can become a philosophy these are some ideas I came up with or u or us or I’s.
Could be called Collective-selfism, Oneism, Selfism, Unified-consciousism, Boundless-Selfism, One-Selfism.
A new word needs to be created if we are one self. Maybe Sllef from all and self. Sllefism - Sllefist
Sllef just not happy with the names though it needs to sound big and coherent and immersion to what we or I all are.
We are all alone BUT we are able to send communications (our shared perceptions) beyond the barriers of our consciousness. That doesn’t mean we will ever be truly understood or understand an other, it just means that people can experience our own unique ‘interpretation of our interpretation’ of reality. Almost like listening to somebody sing a karaoke song, it’s not the original artist singing but an version of it that we recognize.
true understanding is possible.
when a human being awakens to their true nature they gain the ability to directly sense resonance within another. things like literal telepathy between two people become possible.
this kind of communication is not possible on the level of conceptual thought, which is where most people's minds reside.
Yes yes this is the closest to how I think
This is really weird. When I was around 10, I sort of developed this perceived fantasy that somehow, everything around me was here to serve me, serve my existence. Not in the sense of doing my bidding, but for me to exist. I eventually lost this feeling around going to high school. Maybe 10 might be way to young, but I remember having this fantasized perception, very young and lasting for many years. Usually I only thought about this when I was in bed, at night. What makes this even more weird, is that I talked about this in therapy many years ago, I love the The Matrix, I’m one of those people who has high suspicion that we live in a simulated world and now I’m connecting the dots, from a lot of years in past, to a more recent past and having this strong uneasy feeling, right now in the present, because I watched this video. It’s like, from time to time, I have the perception that I’m dreaming for a couple of seconds, which everything seems odd and strange, confusing me. This video, while not not causing sensorial weirdness, gives a sense of dreadfulness. So strange!
I'm 17 and I'm only now starting to think about this, though I did think about it a few times when I was younger
As I engage in ruminations upon the cogitations of the solipsistic school of thought, I am transfixed by their premise which posits that the entirety of what one may consider as real, along with the abstract ideas that transmute the real, all dwell within an internal domain, such that everything which exists within the purview of one's perception is but a reflective, and hence inferential manifestation of that which resides within. According to this ontology, it can be inferred that the external or objective world, which is commonly regarded as separate from the internal or subjective world, is nothing more than a mirroring of the selfsame internal reality, and every aspect of the reality that is perceived is but an extension of the selfsame internal consciousness
I experience the same feeling you describe. Are you real 😅
Are we? 😆
You explained this concept really well in an understandable way! It has become quite a hot topic recently, so your video is a really nice addition.
I moved from a city to a small beach town..I work online so it's amazing 👏 I walk and meditate on the beach because it's my backyard..sometimes I go for a surf as a part of my routine..then I mediate etc growing my own vegetables soon and I walk everywhere..we don't have a thing called traffic..I'm so at peace within myself..I am healing from past trauma ok I have mastered the art of being alone along time ago I'm good with that but I don't think we do well in cities always surrounding ourselves with people and air pollution. Love listening to you thank you
My husband and I are about to move from Philadelphia to Amelia Island FL. We already have a house down there and will get a little money from our Philly house but wages may not be as good down there. I've been so scared and putting off this move for 2 years but you give me confidence.
This philosophy sounds so much like Advaita Vedanta..in fact I could say the roots of Solipsism lay there itself. Advaita Vedanta doctrine is based on this very fact that God(Supreme Consciousness/Awareness) alone exists and everything else doesn't. And this consciousness is what alone witnesses all these name and forms. There is no absolute existence of these objects living and non-living outside that awareness. When we transcend this transactional reality of name and forms, we begin to see what we truly are!
True. You can also find throughout the bible, quran, Book of the dead, Buddhism, etc
solipsism is like that one ‘what if’ question I had in my head in second grade
The problem with Immanuel Kant’s reasoning is this:
“We cannot perceive that there is a reality unknown to us, that we cannot perceive; without perceiving the idea that there is an unknown reality unknown to us….one cannot objectify a notion of an idea that occurs subjectively ie ‘a reality unknown to us’ and divorce it from the subject, whose mind it appears in as an idea of…”
On a related note, I've always mulled the fact you can never truly know someone completely. The things they say, career choices, love interests, hobbies, appearances, etc. may all be comforming to social pressures or other expectations, so it's impossible to ever fully know if they're being genuine or telling the truth since you can't enter their consciousnesses to confirm.
Heh well thats kinda fucked up.
Tho if others are you, arent their feelings mirror to yours.
Still it is one delusion, cuz in the end you can only give love to yourself. That is if you indulge in solipsism.
I have always wondered if this is all a test and I'm actually locked somewhere else with something in my head making this dream seem so freaking real.
It’s a school, you are asking the right questions. Keep listening to your inner voice, keep questioning your existence while enjoying it. Like a dry sponge suck so much knowledge you can! Your soul is here to learn about dualism, like love/pain/hate/anger/happiness/sadness, while enjoying Gods (Universe) creation, what we call our reality.
In the afterlife there is no such as pain, anger or hell, only pure love and comfort. The universe wouldn’t punish you, you’ll just return or maybe even be demoted into an animal soul (just a theory). To learn your lessons that you never learned. This will happen over and over again, til you got it and then finally your soul can ascend to the higher dimensions.
My advice is to spread love and be positive, appreciate the darkness in your life, see them as learning rather than failure, cause after all its a school of life. You need to fall to get up and there is nothing you can do about it, except holding onto your emotions when you’re rolling down the roller coaster. Mastering your emotions is key in life, cause in anger/jealousy/hate and other low vibrational state, will make you choose poor decisions. In return it will create more suffering for you and people around you.
Peace bro
@@OkOk-sx7tx Thank you for leaving a reply, beautiful.
Seems like we're slipping into a dream within a dream. My dreams are crazy at times.
@@OkOk-sx7tx are you real?
@@iamspiritualtechnique4177 I am as real as you
Honestly, I have often wondered and thought along these lines. The ONLY "reality" we can be sure of existing is our own. But when I experience pain, this totally shifts my perspective. Pain is very real and I will go to anyone who has the remedy to help or remove the pain. I mean it still could all be just a part of my experience. I suffered and still do at times from "Existential angst." In that sense, I understand that particular pain and the school of thought behind it. I have always been a very deep thinker. Im not sure if one thing has anything to do with the other (they probably do), but I have at times suffered from severe depression, despair and other related issues. Spending too much time in your own head is not good. Moments are fleeting at best and we can never get them back. Living in the present moment is a challenge for people like me. Like the saying goes and is still VERY TRUE today "ignorance is bliss."
You literally put out my heart here 🥺
it depends how you program yourself , i trained myself to be in my own mind all the time. removing all the bad thoughts. Pain could be imagination too , if you focus on pain in your legs, you’ll feel it ,even if the pain isnt there. you’re mind is the most powefull thing. it can do everything and imagine everything. when you practice the attitude that everything could be fake / imagination. you should feel better.
also train yourself that you dont have control on outside things , so no reason te be mad. there is no point in hurting yourself for something you dont control. there is no point, no logic.
So many of us in this present era is dealing with existential angst...this technological advancements has somehow made everything technical...
Solipsism is childish. It is exactly how a two year-old perceives the world.
Certainly interesting view points. If we look at nature at the ground giving substance to the trees, trees oxygen to us and the sun shining on us all, I can conclude that we are here in part to give our best substance-love to others.
I kind of had a similar concept or a vision running in my mind. Like, I am still sitting in grade 2 , eyes wide open day dreaming and that all my life till 30 years was all a dream / unreal. And I need to wake up. Now I am 33 years old and I feel I am totally awakened from my deep sleep. Great video as usual. Glad to know such new philosophical concepts🤍✨
I’ve thought of this as well. Like what if I’m really still in 3rd grade and I fell asleep at the time out table, and all of this was just a dream
@@NEO_RKXI used to think these same things in 5th grade after my cat died. Maybe it was all just a dream, I'll wake up in my bed, years earlier and realize she's alive and my life is happy again.
In my 20's, there was a massive coping mechanism failure that manifested as Solipsism within me. This adaptation nearly drove me insane, along with the fact that, that was a way the environment and people were treated. It is absolutely true that an entity with conciousness is the only thing one can be sure of in this plane of existence.
It really is interesting how such ideas are formulated in ones mind.
I was looking for this comment, it's coincides with my own thoughts
Especially the "Insane" part.
I dare not go to far down that Rabbit hole though.
It's Almost like Rejecting Both Pills .
Well I got news for you, you can’t prove you exist either
Had the same exact thing happen to me at 17, triggered by traumatic events at the time. I had to be put on medication eventually 😂
@@AltairEgo1you fine?
@@usmansattar6759 well fortunately I made it out with mu sanity intact lol
Interesting question: When you are in a dream, you can talk to other people in the dream. So are the people in your dream self-aware and sentient and conscious? If not and they are merely creations of your own mind, then how do you know if people in the waking real world are real and self-aware or not? It's impossible to know. Any of you think about this too?
I absolutely agree with you, in my dreams I can talk to people as if they are literally there and the interactions we have in there have always felt like that the other people are self aware and sentient and conscious and whatever they speak or do, do as per their consciousness and understanding but the thing here is that I am in my dream and only my consciousness is what is creating them and the conversations. If being in a dream as humans defines it, such experiences could feel so surreal, then maybe, who knows, if everything else we experience in this reality as we term it while we are woke has been made up by our own mind. I think we would never know what real is, i mean, how can one absolutely conclude that the dream is just a dream and once we wake up, then everything is real?
I used to live this way years before. I never thought that it was called Solipsism. I lived my life as if i was the only person in the world. I didnt care about anything or anyone, i was just having fun being me alone. It felt so good, coz u didnt need validation from anyone but you.
This vdo absolutely blow my mind, and this might be the reason why each one should strongly full of self responsibly in singularity cause we are existing alone in our perception.🤔
@Black Lesbian Poet you should apply for a career to be a Judge.
@Black Lesbian Poet I'm not sure why my mind created you, must've had some bad seafood!
@Black Lesbian Poet
Yup. We are all NPCs & YOU are all alone. Spooooky 🤣
@Black Lesbian Poet you’re here too lol
Or the whole philosophy could turn out to be garbage either way it’ll be fun thinking about
I have entertained this idea forever in my head. to understand this I try to think who I was before I was born? you can see others being born and dying but you cannot not experience it yourself. just like someone tell you an experience that had but you can never fully understand unless you go through exactly the same think. what sucks is that we are alone indeed. but there is hope. just like nothing bad happened to us before we came to life, it will most likely be same after we are long gone. wait a sec, we don't go, we transform into another form of energy. Something that I can't explain
More practically, it just doesn't matter if you are in a dream, nothing is real etc. because you behave as if it is real. Try disbelieving and see what happens - reality will slap you in the face or you'll go mad. While useful in broader understanding of what life is about, these intellectual infinite loops seem to me to be simply evidence of our own hubris.
I agree. But what is that reality all about, our existence when it feels so artificial, so wrong? I‘m not the creator of this clownshow.
Its really only evidence of your hubris, given that the rest of us only exist within your mind.
Maybe reality slaps you in the face because that's what you believe it will do ;)
Or I could just be really, really REALLY psychotic. A real genius of hallucination. It's not hubris if the gods don't exist, after all.
What you’re talking about is one of the dangers of spiritually seeking. As you start to see things aren’t so real, it gets confusing. Very confusing.
Thank you for this wonderful Video and elaborating this topic ❤️
I had similar thought patterns about this during my years in study🧐. Didn't know this was called solipsism.
Anyways we are not alone ;)
Also really liked having Kant included.
That's what I told my landlord but he still said I have to pay rent or go live outside and find out if you live in the illusion or not!
I love your Channel. In a simple yet no simplistic way, you take us closer to so many philosophies of our species, touch on our dilemmas and stimulate us to learn more. Your program is the most enjoyable of all I "like" on UA-cam. Thank you so much for your effort (although I feel you enjoy doing it - in that case "effort " is not the correct noun ). Love from Canada.❤
I think the answer to trying to prove there is outside the mind, opposed to just oneself, is to believe all possibilities simultaneously. By which I mean that the mind may not be able to prove anything exterior to that, but if we understand, and can successfully contemplate, enough about everything possible, we can consider ourselves actually participants in all these universes simultaneously. This is really only an extension of understanding everyday imperceptions of the senses.
What i feel is what i seldom see. What i see is what i seldom feel. So even if i say myself that life like me exists, i feel questioned instead of asserted.
I had this as a kid a couple of times then it went away but the experience is much more positive for me in my 50s. This concept came back to me a few months ago during a mushroom trip (my first). It wasn't a negative experience, it was as if there was a higher power putting me through a learning experience almost like my entire life was a simulation and because the mushrooms brought a lot of love and kindness out of me I thought the higher power was suggesting I was reaching another level of consciousness and getting prepared to move to a more enlightened dimension or parallel universe.
there IS a meaning to life... we're the universe slowly gaining conscience through every life lived throughout eons, intelligent or *not*. The universe runs on knowledge. Knowledge is power is such an understatement.
Every form of insanity can be rationalized into a kind of philosophy
Maybe the one who thinks solipsism is insane is actually the insane one.
@@bumblebeme Insane people have lost touch with reality, and 'reality' is defined by what most people in general consider to exist in fact, including the existence of other people besides themselves. So, either you believe in the real existence of other people too, like all sane people do, or, you believe in Solipsism and are the one who is insane !
@@alwaysgreatusa223 You seem very certain that something is insane with no proof at all. Maybe solipsim is truth. It cant be proven wrong so by definition it would be truth.
@@bumblebeme Lol. So, whatever cannot be proven false is true ? That is absurd ! You can't prove it is false that other people exist besides yourself, therefore it is true !
@@alwaysgreatusa223 by definiton
You don’t have to use wood as an example. Every day we attribute consciousness to our smart phones and laptops and we talk to them as if we’re talking to people. That being said I believe everyone is the only person in their own universe , and other people are just other universes
@Dylan Buck I think we’re in a pool of intelligence, but the person is a mental construct
I’ve been studying these types of philosophies for years and I don’t think they’re binary. The human mind wants to say it’s “this” or “that” but te infinite divine force is beyond that. It’s bigger than mind.
The closest conclusion I’ve gotten is yes, this experience is completely inside of your consciousness. But you are God’s dream and he’s having multiple dreams at once - across millions of times,
Spaces, people, etc. the multiverse is like a holograph.
And it is intertwined through the energies accessed and expressed via feelings.
These feelings cast potentials that all work together to co create the multiverse. But it’s all ultimately god and you are god (not the religious definition - just the word I’m using for “all that is”)
I don't believe that binary thinking is engrained in human beings. There have been cultures that did not perceive the world in binary ways. Western thought has swamped most other ways of thinking, but it is not written in our DNA that we must see the world as either/or.
What your expressing is what Non Duality says of this phenomenon also.
@@TheHogart Pretty much! But I do believe in separation - like you can have your experience and I can have mine and somehow they are holographically connecting into this fabric that I choose to call God. But yes, it is like a nuanced advaita/non-duality. I actually don't think the human mind is supposed to fully comprehend it, because the mind is ultimately limited. But whatever your intuition says is correct - this is just my intuition. And I think multiple intuitions can and do exist.
God is *your* dream
Thank you for your work. Great video as always.
And a tip for next one (related to Solipsism) might be about Advaita Vedanda or also called Nondualism.
yes, would be interesring too.
If you believe our reality is full of conscious beings like yourself, you're likely to be compassionate and live a good virtuous life. You help others, in turn, they help you.
If this belief turns out to be wrong, no one is hurt. And nothing mattered anyway.
If you believe we are the only real sentient existence, you're likely to be reckless, apathetic, lonely and more. Your actions are only to appease yourself with no consideration for the other.
If this belief turns out to be wrong, then it is a life wasted, and you're a force of unnecessary suffering to the conscious ones around you.
All life is wasted.
I agree, it's the way a psychopath sees the world.
@@michelleburkholder2547 Indeed, I gotta say something that wasn't mentioned or questioned is where solipsism comes from. Who is likely to develop a solipsist perspective and why? Well, the answer is people who were hurt so badly the only way they can bear it and live with it is if they believe none of it is real.
Well, the problem is we don't know the consequences of our actions. Anything good you do might lead to horrible things. Similarly, even the darkest deeds can bring something good. If you realize this, maybe because you've seen it happen in your life, you might wish you had never existed. A clean conscience can only result from a life that left no trace. Too bad it's impossible.
Solipsism is ok to consider but clearly not the best to live by.
Imo it really shouldn't change how one "plays the game".
Two philosophers chatted at a philosophy conference. One said to the other, "So nice to meet another Solipsist. There are so few of us around these days."
When I was a child, I thought nothing really existed outside of about 25 miles from me. That became 50 miles before I trashed the theory. I know the world exists because the fine details don't change whenever I wake up. It is REAL ENOUGH to participate, learn new skills and objects, and receive recognition for my work.
When I had my "spiritual experience" I saw the world around me as manifestations of ego. Buildings, bridges, clothes, thoughts, etc...
I think one interesting factor that contributes to the appearance of such skeptical doubt of the external world, is how the world treats people unequally. I am here, conscious of my own conscious laying in my bed thinking about thought, while the world also tells me that there are children starving to death and people dying every millisecond. The drastic difference in these two realities just makes it easy for us to believe that either one of them can’t be real, which in this case since it would be subjectively ridiculous to deny our own reality, come to conclude that the cruel lives of others are the ones capable of being unreal. Which then causes a chain of doubt that leads to the uncertainty of the mind of others as a whole.
I find this to be more of a reason there is an external world. If this was just an imagination filled existence, it's all just an illusion type shit, what's the point of starving children and other horrors?
A material reality, nature, is brutal. No real rules, find a nitch and maybe your species will survive, but that survival will be full of bullshit and suffering.
When I was a kid, I've always thought about this. What if only me exists, and that everything and everyone else that I see, hear, smell, feel, and taste are all just an illusion, since there is no way to rove their existence.
Listening to these, snacking a few chillied peanuts and cold beer, lying on a stretched hammock on a beach with wind on my face and waves doing their rounds. Wonderful. Cogito ergo sum!
4:42 this is what scares me. We will never know whether what we're looking at is real or everything that exists is real, for all we know we could be in a simulation right now, or atleast stuck in our minds, everything that happens in our life could just be made up in our minds. Thats what I find depressing. But we shouldn't dwell on this concept because after all it's just a concept and it may not even be true, however scary and sad it may be.
Ok but the idea of “I’m the only mind that exists” requires a language. It’s a thought expressed in a public language; which implies a social existence.
do you talk to people in your dreams? are they real outside of you in your dream?
@@mcon6834 Dreams are not yet completely understood by science; using them a reference is a good way of getting information wrong.
As far as we know everything in a dream happens inside your head. In this case I’m not talking about dreams. I’m talking about the language you and I are using at this very moment, while awake, to speak to each other.
@@leon3589 How do you know you are awake?
@@theweirdchannel653 through which language are you asking me that question.
Is my point.
Cause the other one is a cyclical argument and we came from there.
“Yeah mate but how do you know anything “
That’s what I’m telling you.
"Can't enter another's mind"... and even if you could, how would you know that was not just your imagination
Exactly. Knowing another mind is impossible. You would literally have to be that other mind to confirm it even exists, and even so, if you were that mind, you'd still be asking the question "are there minds outside of this?".
David Aymes in Vanilla Sky had it right i. Vanilla Sky. His therapist (confirmed to be a figment of David's own mind later on) said to David "I am real! I am TOO real!", David said "how do you know?". We don't even know if we're real, whatever real is. All we know is that we feel real, therefor, at least to us, we are real. But I could just be a dream of some giant sleeping in a big shoe.
@@AltairEgo1I don't see how you can doubt your own existence. If I got to know that my existence and the world I lived in was a dream of a giant,I would say that it was capable of creating real worlds somehow,as I am real and I know that.
I am real by definition,and by being able to ponder my own existence.
Maybe the giant has no way to confirm if I am real or not,but I know that I am 100% real.
@@PranabMallick. I don't see how anyone can go there whole life without ever pondering the question, or ever having any doubt. Life is an absurd thing, and one day you just sort of pop into existence. One day you're just conscious and that's that. Like a dream your birth just began and you're not aware of the passage of time. Yeah we have a history of the world and universe, but life, your life, just sort of happens. So yeah, of course I doubt whether my own existence is anything at all.
You FEEL real, you feel as if it's all real, but then so do dreams until you wake up from them.
@@AltairEgo1I am not talking about doubting the external world but one's own existence.
Me feeling being real is a confirmation of me being real.
I am aware,I am concious,I feel,obviously I am.
@@PranabMallick. Why not doubt the internal world? As far as we know this awareness, whatever it is, is real. I feel real, but what if I'm just an A.I made to simulate sensations, or just a figment of something else's imagination? There's already questions about what, if anything, this awareness is. Existence is obsurd, so like any other curious person I've naturally had doubts as to whether even awareness, or consciousness is real.
The question is ultimately obsurd, but I can't really prove that my thoughts are real, let alone sensations, so naturally I have doubt. The only form of proof there is, is feelings. Feelings. We tell people their feelings aren't proof of anything, not proof of God, ghosts or anything else like that, yet feelings are used as proof of feelings. A circular logic which we're all forced to use to make meaning of these random feelings and thoughts.
Everyone is a solipsist in their own universe among the vast multiverse!
hell yeah!
I can get with that
In this universe, you are the only one dreaming. I am just an illusion pretending to be real. 😊😊
@@watchWorld100 but what if dreams are actually real?
@@watchWorld100 Real is just intellect, you don’t need anything to be real dude 😅 you are life itself and it’s cooler to live in the state of unconditional love rather than being angry all the time and I will also love the unreal and the illusion as well ☮️
Someone who truly believed in solipsism and acted it out would be narcissistic, unethical, unloving. Because they don’t believe others are really “others”. They think anything they experience is all that is experienced. So hurting people indiscriminately would be fine as long as they enjoyed it.
Stronger solipsists wouldn’t even talk to communicate with other beings. They would say random words or grunts that mean things to them in their own language. They might be completely non verbal and just use their mind to play around, completely insane.
Idealists and non dualists who believe all is one, with no separation, or all is awareness within the mind, both would be solipsists and if they were consistent with their actions and beliefs they would act as mentioned above.
This is a fair conclusion. 👌
do you go around ripping your own fingernails off and walk around all the time with a rock in your shoe too?
I love this beautiful essay. I am a solipsist with a twist. I believe that there is only my self and God. Everything I perceive outside of my own mind and soul is manifestations of the one God. In the extant Universe, there are only two things: I and God.
That would make you God in that case.
I am God and beside me there is no other
"The creation of the perceiver."... beautiful. This particular branch of philosophy is fascinating.
I say we have a solipsism convention and let all the attendees duke it out to see who really exists.
This is one of the best channels I've ever come across. For those who suffer from existentialism and of the like.
As a solipsist, I made a great video! Keep it up!
heh
@@liczibiczi8948they are saying that because a solipcist is what is created by your own mind, that this video could have only been created by their own mind…
😂
I was feeling lost in life, glad that this video came at the right time.
As in this video, Zhuangzi's butterfly story is commonly misinterpreted. I advise you to read Guo Xiang's commentary.
It's about the barrier between life and death, not solipsism or skepticism.
I am so happy, You made this video for us ! It is very educational for our conditiobed minds !👽❤
“Life” only exists through your (my) perception. When I die, you all cease to exist. Sorry folks, thats the way the cookie crumbles. Thanks for playing.
Correct. Enjoy your dream.
Damn!
My life is fake. Guess ima go jump off this bridge now. Thanks a lot, Brian 🤣
My ex used to call me super Narcissistic for thinking this was a possibility, thank you for showing the world!
What others lol
Useful when one wants to focus on just Beingness and the exiting of life as we perceive it. I’ve often wondered if I was the last one here and everyone else is waiting for me (waiting patiently for me on the other side) to wake up!
a Czech writer, poet and genius once proposed his reaction to this philosophy: "Everything exists, except me. As in, everything exists, and in the middle of everyhing Jara Cimrman is missing"
This is a very nice video, there is just one problem: "You can be certain of only your own existence." and other such equivalent statements implies doubt about the statement itself: If I can be sure of only my own existence then since I learned of this concept from "someone else" then the statement itself is questionable given its source.
Yes, nothing exists except "you". And after physical death nothing will exists except "you". Eternal boredom and nothingness would be hell.
Makes me question stress. Why worry about anything that doesn't exist?
Why worry even if it does exist?
I feel like solipsism also ties in with the egg theory. How we as individuals experience life the same way but with different perceptions of reality. Take a simple sentence for example. There’s a boy in a field. We, for absolute certain, can picture a boy in a field, but the way we would perceive it will always be different. Like where in the field is the boy, what the boy looks like, how old the boy is, what’s in the field. But we can all picture the boy in the field. Meaning we share consciousness, but don’t share the perception of our consciousness. We absolutely cannot prove eachothers existence because we don’t share the same perception of reality. But We are all one in consciousness and life is just a cycle that repeats itself as we experience it to gain knowledge and enlightenment. Every individual experience is different and unique. Meaning we are both alone, but connected.
When I was transcending in an LSD trip, I saw a field full of people too focused in their own needs and lives that they couldn’t bother less about other peoples lives. Everyone is living inside their own matrixes and can’t have a real interpretation of other realities. It is crazy solipsism is just about it.
This is how i see it too. Everyone in their own reality bubble.
Finnaly. I after 2 years of not finding a word on how I see the world. I don't always feel it like this, but only when I want to consider it like this. I also can speak with myself when I speak with another person.
Everything is nothing but with a twist ♾
For things that exist only in my mind, they sure seem to persist, even when I sleep.
"We are the universe trying to understand itself" Carl Sagan
Illusion and Reality, including purpose, are a question of belief.
This brings me back to when I was posed with the question: "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Great vid. Adds another layer to the above.
@@Messi10forever...... A sound is only a sound because of ears. Without ears in the universe there is no sound. Just vibrations in the air. our brains create this reality iin which we live. And seeing how we define the word sound, it would indeed be true that there would be no sound if the tree falls, only a vibration. Which is the same but under a different definition. So yes there is no sound, but yes something happens
Thank you for showing me this understanding. It's to me absolutely impossible even as a postulate. From my experience and even my dreams. My full, authenticate experience this idea is not holding water nor holding credentials through to that which is reality. Your video was a great adventure into my own experience. And I thank you for diving so deep into this idea. It truly is something that the earnest learners should travel in. Again, thank you for the traversing of a very small difference in. !!!! Ku do z !
I've learned something new again today! And btw, great choices of clips and nice editing! 💕
Oh boy… if only you knew about mark passio and his work. You need to reprogram that mind brother
What?
One of the most perilous illusions is that your real life has not yet begun, that your present existence is a mere prelude to some idyllic future. This idyll is a mirage that will fade as you approach, revealing the prelude you hurried through was in fact the one to your death.
As children, this was my belief, as the world did seem to revolve around me, until it didn't. Also, the idea that God, (same consciousness that we all share likeness with) exists in everything supports this theory entirely. 🤔🤔🤔
Am on the path to enlightenment and I didn't have a label for "It's all only me isn't it?" until now! Thank you!
This sounds a lot like the philosophy of sociopaths. As someone else said before, I would rather treat others as if they were sentient, even if their not, because that would be better than doing the opposite, and finding out I was wrong.
Rene Descartes "I think therefore I am" does certainly confirm self consciousness. But beyond this no one has been able to prove as definitive.
Given the limited lenses of our own eyes (for example not being able to see radio waves, or thermalogic air change). It's a very hard one to even wrap your head around HOW to answer the question let alone go about trying to prove reality is as we see it
LoL sorry I typed before you brought up Descartes in the video. Excellent coverage of all aspects in this realm 🙏❣️
I've always considered solipsism as a personality disorder, not a philosophy. I still do. Solipsists are born with it. IMO.
Indeed... I know many narci - I mean - solipsists.
Imo solipsism is an altered state of mind (i think it's basically philosophizing derealization), not necessarily a "personality disorder", but some people's personalities are more susceptible to that train of thought. i think even psychedelics can make it happen
I remember my father expressing the validity of solipsism, when I asked him if a computer that knew everything could predict the future. Later on, trying to explain why I was an atheist, my father became hostile. Finally, I told him that he could believe whatever he wanted to believe and he agreed. Months later, when he realized I was referring to him, personally, he got hostile all over again, which culminated in ineffectual efforts to have me arrested and committed, after claiming I’d tried to physically assault him. Now he’s dead, and my life is much less stressful. Amazingly, I didn’t disappear when he died.
This is EXACTLY what Ive been living in for awhile now.
There is another spin on it. The spin of the spiritual. That everyone is God, dreaming that he/she/it is us. Therefore God is the only thing that exists and we are just a thought or dream he is having - forgetting who we actually are. All the worlds a stage, and God is all the players. God is even the "stage". Everything just a figment of Gods imagination. (That would be my inner Neville Goddard there)
This is a subject that has fascinated me for years. It’s good to know other feel the same. Or maybe I’m just writing to myself…..:)
Very good content. I just saved it to my hard drive. I´m very curious for the comments.
The fact that this is a video confirms there are other minds. A perspective so profound that exists before I found it must mean something
there are others in your dreams as well, when you wake up you realize they were all you, in your own mind
@@mcon6834 hmmm true. I have more to think about…
@@Slam_24 it is at least a 5000 year old philosophy, plenty have done thinking about about it but yes, you should! (:
Some of my recent personal experiences really made me ponder this issue. It's kind of crazy that this channel just posted about it. For the past few days I've ve been absurdly invested in this topic and just couldn't shake the feeling that there is something to solipsism. Generally I like to keep myself in check so I wouldn't go down the path of dehumanization. That being said, some people really do act like NPCs.
I believe it's more interconnected and complex than solipsism. I think, all our individual and the collective consciousness affects each other. Those more aware, with a higher, "stronger consciousness" contribute more, while they are less likely to be easily "programmed". Others quite literally on "autopilot" are just tagging along. Predictably functioning as they are programed to. Regardless of one's current state, nothing is forever. One can advance but also regress.
TL:DR We might all be NPCs at one point. Some of us break free and gain the power of higher consciousness. Some of us relapse. It's constantly changing though.
congrats you found us the NPCs.. now get some cookies. this is my program tell me to tell you that. enjoy
Take LSD and think about it
@@eighttarot9949 That's just what an NPC would say.
It's called we're in a simulation prison for our minds like the matrix. Look around we live in one giant stupid commercial. Everything in this terrible place is in a constant state of decay and suffering
Yes, this is concept that there is one being, God, divided into several spheres of awareness, and divided again and again down to the individual. So there can be one human being that looks through the eyes and minds of billions of human beings.
This brings meaning to "I meet no one but me."
I remember a time about 20 years ago around 7-8 years of age where I had this exact thought. Am I the only real existence and is everything and one around me is made up so to speak. I can still remember this memory so vividly. Crazy thoughts for a child, anyone have a similar experience?
I have always been philosophical but the idea of solipsism just came to me recently.
Maybe something like that, subconsciously. Less jaunting. My thoughts were more towards that everything exists not cus of me, but I’m the only thing I know. And I would wonder why humans do what they do. Alien child. Lol
About the same age I remember thinking that and feeling so lonely. I believed in God so thought it was ok. Then I thought "What if is no God!" I wondered where people went after I left. At 72 I now am super peaceful and live being alone. All is good.
Yes. I had it too. I was maybe 5 years ago and I remember waking up at night due to a nightmare and asking myself what if everyone else was just a ghost pretending to be someone and if I was the only person in this world.
I remember being in the car with my mom at night wondering if she was really an alien and I was being kidnapped my whole life lol
If nothing exists but me. Then why am I unable to control my perceptions? Why am I forced to feel pain? Why am I addicted to nicotine? Why am I exposed to concepts and ideas that are new to me which I did not come up with on my own? Why do I not have superpowers?
The only thing i know for sure is that I can never know anything for sure. All I can assume based on my life's experiences is that I feel I am a bystander, and not in control of anything in life at all. Also It feels as though there is some greater force at work making things happen and laughing at my feable attempts to be in control of my life. It also feels like my mom is an NPC. She never changes. At all. She acts tge way she has always acted regardless of the presence if new information. It's as if she doesn't have the ability to take in new information and adapt or adjust to it in any way. She seems like a program with predetermined attributes, personality traits, responses, and temperament. It actually seems that way for everyone I've ever met which leads me to feel as though I could be in a simulation of some sort. Idk like i said idk shit I'm just here for the memes
the fascinating thing about this theory is that it truly doesn't matter. because our reality, real or not real, is everything we have.
I had multiple of those dream where i had fully different lifes with different memories, which faded slowly as i woke up. Also dreamed of death and the paradise after, waking up after deciding to live again. It really doesn't matter whats real or not, just try to make the best out of it, if you don't know if you wake up once again.
How was death and the after life?
@@Mel-pi2ns Death was pretty painful. I got burned alive in an expanding fireball. First i felt everything getting hot, then pain, then nothing as the skin burned off, then cold. Same with sight, first saw yellow, then white, then black, until i saw a white light and moved towards it. I found myself in a forest clearing. Everything felt like a constant dejavu like everywhere i go i was before. I had no pain or any negative feelings or emotions. I was completely alone, but it didn't bother me. My memory capacity was very low, like i could feel myself forgetting everything i wasn't paying attention to consantly. Concept of time was weird, it felt like i've been there for a span of multiple lifetimes. One day i looked through a mountain formation into the sun and rememberered my death. I thought i spend enough time whereever i was and decided that i want to go back to maybe help with the situation, whatever killed me left behind. I knew where a portal was to go back, so i went there and woke up.
Some of us with OCD can easily resonate with this and our compulsions are efforts to control this.
Same bro,I got a thought about it and anxiety also