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Prove to me other minds exist and that this entire world was not simply created for my enjoyment or as a test by God.

Prove to me you and all of this is real. I keep encountering coincidences or finding myself in hypernormal circumstances in real life that cannot be explained as simply a lucky guess on the part of an algorithm. I believe people I meet are genuinely placed them knowingly to fool me into thinking they exist in time and space and not simply as a character or puppet by someone else’s behalf. I also feel extremely foolish interacting with this people, engaging in small talk or about work projects, as I suspect they know I know they are not real or at least performing for me. Feels silly. I want an explanation

>> No.17940830

What would, in your opinion, prove solipsism wrong?

>> No.17940840

schitzophrenia

>> No.17940847

>>17940818
Although it is impossible to prove the existence of other minds, it is possible to make the (positive) evidence for solipsism seem less compelling.

>I keep encountering coincidences or finding myself in hypernormal circumstances in real life that cannot be explained as simply a lucky guess on the part of an algorithm.
See:
>Statistically "impossible" events are often called miracles. For instance, when three classmates accidentally meet in a different country decades after having left school, they could consider this as "miraculous". However, a colossal number of events happen every moment on Earth; thus extremely unlikely coincidences also happen every moment. Events that are considered "impossible" are therefore not impossible at all — they are just increasingly rare and dependent on the number of individual events. British mathematician J. E. Littlewood suggested that individuals should statistically expect one-in-a-million events ("miracles") to happen to them at the rate of about one per month. By Littlewood's definition, seemingly miraculous events are actually commonplace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle#Law_of_truly_large_numbers

>> No.17940876

>>17940818
No, because you cant make me do anything.

>> No.17940894

>>17940876
He just made you post.

>> No.17940918

>>17940818
You should hang out with your fellow solipsists

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>>17940894
>Choose to do something
>OMG he made you do something!

>> No.17940955

>>17940830
Nothing, which is exactly why it's wrong. Everything that is true has exceptions.

>> No.17940968

There is no method of proving what you ask Mike.

>> No.17940970

>>17940818
No.

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>>17940818
You can cut people's brains open, or dog's, and they have a large computational organ called a brain. This structure, an assemblage of neurons, is the same as yours.
Furthermore it can be disrupted in discrete ways for predictable outcomes. Same as yours.

Your computational mass is able to more easily digest a featureless intelligence - a god or soul, as it is far less data than a person made out of molecules.
Just as a VCR only reads the data strip and is blind to the other structures.
But don't confuse this with reality.

That there is a god, and that god made creatures with brains, but those brains are nonfunctional illusions is not a realistic scenario.
Given that most people in such a world would be an illusion, you are more likely to be the puppet than them.
The only way you assume you aren't is because you 'feel' you aren't. But maybe god just made you feel like you weren't an illusion.