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Problem of Other Minds

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Response to Problem of Other Minds 2013-02-20 19:19:43 Reply
At 2/20/13 06:51 PM, naronic wrote: Not really, it's just that you accept it to be true.
You can't know anything to be true for sure.

Not a convincing argument for an unsupported notion that there is 'only my mind' and nothing else.

All your experiences, all you know is second hand, and you don't know where that hand is coming from.

You don't know what my experiences are. Remember, according to this theory you find bulletproof you are only observing my behavior and it isn't even proof that there's a mind behind it. I don't buy it: I've actually experienced things and so have you.

You can accept the link as sufficient evidence but skepticism still stands.

Yea, but thanks to scientific method and citations, if I were so inclined I could actually refer to the original study's method in order to verify the authenticity of their claim independently. That's the point. Whereas, the skeptical argument relies entirely on me buying what it's selling: I don't.

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