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TwentyFiveCharsOrLess OP wrote

Reply to comment by Lelija in Reality is a simulation by TwentyFiveCharsOrLess

If you can’t prove the external world exists, it must be a construction of the mind, right?

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Lelija wrote

Well, if your idea of 'simulation' is from Matrix, then no. The Matrix 'simulation' was not a construction of the mind but a computer program. This was an ontological issue, not epistemic.

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TwentyFiveCharsOrLess OP wrote

The matrix is just a culturally relevant example of a simulation. Can’t think of any better way to convey this.

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Lelija wrote

But solipsism is not 'everything outside of your mind is a simulation.' It doesn't question the nature of reality the way simulation does, but rather points to the limits of our ability to understand and thus know the world around us.

According to solipsism, I am not 'real' to you not because I might be a bot. It is because you'll never be able to know who I really am as a person -- how I think, what I desire, what drives me, etc. (But then, nobody really fully understands that even about themselves, so checkmate, solipsism).

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