"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.
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.
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.
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"
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?
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
@@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.
@@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
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”.
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:)
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.
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
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.🤔
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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
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.
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 RU-vid. 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.❤
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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 !
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!
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.
@@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 ☮️
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.
I've always struggled with this idea since I was a teenager. I repress it because it's a lonely existence. I've coupled this idea with simulation theory but instead of all of us being here together in this simulation I'm alone like in a Pokemon video game just walking around as the main character.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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…
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.
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.
This is just a comment on a video that I created myself in my mind. No one’s gonna ever read it . There is no one else but my consciousness. This thought made me take paxil and antidepressants. Huge panic attacks . My brain was on fucking fire . So many crazy thoughts. I’m good now though .
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.
i literally love this stuff dude. the concept is so fascinating and i love looking in on it and having different perspectives on a lot of stuff like this. philosophy (or whatever this is) is the only subject that really peaks my interest because it’s not like any other, u question and understand EVERY thing idk it’s just really weird. anything else i can look into similar to this? and any places i can go to talk abt this like yt channels discord servers tiktok pages?
So it's possible that this video, this channel and YT too is just an imagination of my mind , I think this idea will help me battle my sufferings and depression 🙏🏽💙
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!
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.
This is weird as well for me... I've been invested into understanding the nature of reality, unexplainable phenomena, synchronicities, observer effect, morphic fields... And I looked a lot into solipsism and I noticed, suddenly, out of the blue getting weird coincidences about it, such as friends pondering hypothesis about reality and things like that, even if i dont talk about this with friends. Mind and matter interaction is kinda undeniable now, for me, and consciousness again even more unexplainable. I was thinking about solipsism and I searched on YT for a song not even related in any way to it and this vid came out. Idk if this is driving me mad, free or both
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
So everyone and everything is me. I am you making this video and replying to my own thoughts. This world is how I see this world created by my mind. Even you . If it’s you reading this I am also you.
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. 🤔🤔🤔
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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"
I agree and see all this it's definitely possible, I had that feeling many times, but if we are in a simulation kind of world/universe then maybe each one of us it is creating it's own reality on it's own dimension/space, then we are not alone...
@@artbyfio Yeah, I mean it’s common sense. To think that you are alone is kinda disturbing. Anyone can feel “alone” but to actually think that you are the only one who exist is a mental deficiency!
@@willms7173 Those are good questions to ask yourself, see we have something called a “inner” voice. Listen to your intuition, follow the heart rather than the crowd and make up your own mind!
All there is, is one. One consciousness experiencing itself through multiple iterations. You exist as much as I do, but we are both the same consciousness at source level.
@@svenheuseveldt7188 this isn't Solipsism. It's the most ancient principle known. Reductionism wants to prove something that cannot ever be comprehended through separation, for all parts hold their perception of truth. Only when all parts have been reunited in self awareness of oneness, the whole truth will be known.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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
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.
I love these videos and I love Taoism but I gotta say, sometimes when I’m feel a little stressed or disconnected from myself, this is like the opposite of what I should be watching right now 😂 I have PTSD and I tend to be prone to disassociating when I’m under stress. Somehow I’m here though, still watching 🤷🏻♀️
@@JoSpring I’m very science-minded and love to learn. As a librarian I’m also familiar with how to do proper research. Please provide scientific evidence from a credible source that proves free will is an illusion. I am genuinely curious now.
Personally, I despise solipsism to the core of my being, because it devalues everything and anything anyone ever achieved, every personal or collective tragedy and triumph throughout thousands of years of recorded history and billions years of evolution, trial, tribulation, sacrifice, everything. The sheer hubris of downplaying someone else's entire life, with all of it's struggles as the product of somebody's imagination is baffling. Also, if we go with this belief to the extreme, why bother with anything of value? Somewhere in the end of the 20th century or at the beggining of a 21st one, there was a case of murder, that was completely random, out of the blue. One random woman killed another random woman, and when she was trialed, she said to the court, that she did what she did, because believed the world around not being real. Horrifically, she was deemed insane, and sent to the psychyatry facility instead of jail. That is solipsism at it's pinnacle, and even at lesser degree of inadequacy, it will always devalue something, such as objective reality or subjective expiriences, in exchange of nothing productive or beneficial with basis consisting only of the DOUBT, which goes beyond reason. What also is sickening about it, is that it's core always, egoistically, revolve around concrete individual being "the source of origin", although logic would dictate, that every believer of solipsism would consider only themselves to be the true origin of creation, which, in itself, is a corrosive mixture of hubris and entiltement.
But… if my mind is creating all of reality as a dream that only I experience, then solipsism is neither hubris nor entitlement. It is merely reality. To continue this line of reasoning the murder never actually happened because my mind created it.
@@warrenarnold5539 yeah, but isn't it ultimate hubris to think that YOUR mind created everything and not backwards, that YOU are the product of someone else's imagination? Maybe by commiting murder, you murdered the creator, the only person whose life is real and genuine and thus the only life worth saving? But even that way, solipsism boils down to egoistical malicious antyphatic wiev of everything around as holding no merit or value because "it's all imagined". That is horrible because solipsist might just be wrong, as they can't definitively prove their wiev as corresponding with the objective reality. And yes, it's THEIR job to prove legitimacy of their wiev, as they are claiming it to be true, and as far as they are unable to do this, they are considered, rightfully, spouting nonsence.
I don’t buy into solipsism at all. Our perception of the world is quite real because there are consequences for every action or inaction that we take every time. I always start finding about anything from the simplest explanation to more difficult ones if need be (Occam’s Razor).
The "only you exist" doesnt make sense. Descartes thought he is the only "thing" exist, but now I'm watching a video about him and I also think I'm the only 'thing" that exist, then who is the only "thing" exist ?
Ironically if our eyes didn't make micro movements when we see things, some believe they would disappear, which is a theory of why we dream so that we keep our sense of sight. You might also argue (weakly) that collective sensing makes an object real. A person who is color blind may look at an object I'm looking at at the same time, just in a different color, but still perceives it Ad there. If we're in two different rooms and the walls between us come down, we notice there is another censor, but the object was still there despite us being aware of another observer. The form, besides color was still there.
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
There is no argument against solipsism. To assume it's absurd is to assume it doesn't exist a priori (which I admit--is most likely correct). Solipsism can explain every single critique against itself. First, you are the only thing that _you_ know exists (so that's a key to solipsism--you exist). Second, everything around you is an illusion created by your existence. So this is where empiricism says that solipsism cannot possibly be true. If you could exist in a bazillion different ways, why would it just so happen to be that you exist in a perfectly explainable existence? But solipsism has a perfectly valid answer to that: you have constructed reality, in such a way, they you cannot differentiate what is "real" (you) and what you've created--our reality.
The thing is that a solipsist view is unhelpful (which if I were to believe in solipsism would be proof that the reality I created was pushing me away from the "truth"--solipsism)... ...so what if it _is_ correct, that I'm the only thing that actually exists? Do I still have moral obligations? I mean, it's all fake right? So who cares? Yet somehow--most of us _do_ seem to care (again, the "most people caring to be 'moral'" part could be my interpretation of what society "ought" to look like). So then in that regard, even if solipsism is correct--shouldn't you treat your creations, as if they do indeed exist--i.e. with respect??
@@cryptostad I think you can dream within a dream. You've never had dreams where you wake up, realizing you were dreaming, then realize, actually no, you're still in a dream?
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.
When I was a child I once told my parents that I sometimes think I'm the only person alive and the only one who really exists. They laughed about it and called me stupid. It's kinda funny to find out that a philosophy about this notion exists.
