Material solipsism is one thing I've given up on for the moment --- it can't possibly be resolved
OK so I can appreciate not wanting the headache right now, but I think from the above line of reasoning one can resolve it; one can show that it is logically inconsistent (unless the solipsist really can account for all the above, and I bet not one person alive who thinks they are a solipsist can do so). The best defence is that the solipsist is capable of existing and creating their own world despite being logically inconsistent, and since solipsism appears to be a disease of the excessively logical, I doubt there will be any takers. Rather, I out-logic their argument.
I think you are saying that
- we need to have imagination to be able to make copies - making copies leads to the death of imagination
But in that case, it should also lead to the inability to make copies, as well. It becomes circular.
You have the most entertaining and lucid contribution to the study of being nuts that I've read :)
I hope I didn't discourage you with my comments on poetry; I think you have something others don't, but in this age it takes a conscious decision to leave the mainstream that doesn't have what you have, and then make the best of what you do have. Thus I think if you turn to structured forms (even if unique) what you have will be better and more beautifully expressed. Is that any clearer?
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Date: 2008-03-29 03:38 am (UTC)OK so I can appreciate not wanting the headache right now, but I think from the above line of reasoning one can resolve it; one can show that it is logically inconsistent (unless the solipsist really can account for all the above, and I bet not one person alive who thinks they are a solipsist can do so). The best defence is that the solipsist is capable of existing and creating their own world despite being logically inconsistent, and since solipsism appears to be a disease of the excessively logical, I doubt there will be any takers. Rather, I out-logic their argument.
I think you are saying that
- we need to have imagination to be able to make copies
- making copies leads to the death of imagination
But in that case, it should also lead to the inability to make copies, as well. It becomes circular.
You have the most entertaining and lucid contribution to the study of being nuts that I've read :)
I hope I didn't discourage you with my comments on poetry; I think you have something others don't, but in this age it takes a conscious decision to leave the mainstream that doesn't have what you have, and then make the best of what you do have. Thus I think if you turn to structured forms (even if unique) what you have will be better and more beautifully expressed. Is that any clearer?