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Everybody you have come into contact with is only an extension of your subconscious. They only exist within your mind and are representative of your personality traits. Any reaction with other people is nothing more than a process of your personality being constructed or destructed. As you're reading this paragraph, a part of me is being imprinted into your subconscious mind. This very moment has the potential to manifest itself in within your personality. Reading this will subconsciously affect the way you think from this point on (maybe subtly, maybe drastically), but you will never know that because ironically, I'm communicating the process, and in turn limiting your ability to conceive the idea simply because your trying to understand an idea regarding the subconscious with your conscious mind. The only reason I have the ability to explain it to you is because I do not exist. Paradoxically, this moment is when your subconscious is trying to express this idea, using me as a medium.

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  • flutterhigh
    12 years ago

    Alright guys, who reanimated the corpse of Descartes?

    I will once again posit my theory of Fruitless Truth.
    A statement that can be said to be analytically consistent and true, but that has no practical extension beyond that, is like a fruitless fig tree - alive, but as it bears no seed, can also be said to be dead. It exists for the sake of existing, and nothing beyond that. Solipsism is a Fruitless Truth because while the necessarily private content of our own minds is the only thing we have direct access to, knowing that serves no purpose, and practically applying that leaves us catatonic. It takes a wise man to realize that true knowledge may be impossible. It takes stupidity to thus decide never to try and learn anything.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    This reminds me of inception and how in dreams our subconscious projects people who are merely extensions of our mind.

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  • dom180
    12 years ago

    You are using long words to form sentences that make have no meaning simply for the pleasure of confusing us. Sadly, it seems to be working on some people :(

    In the REAL WORLD:
    No evidence for this belief
    No requirement for this belief
    No support for this belief

    Condradiction:
    "A part of me is being imprinted on your subconcious mind". How can that be so if my subconcious mind created you? If you are already there, why would the mind reproduce it's own content?

    Conclusion:
    Your belief is flawed and ultimately pointless.

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    • RiotousMind
      12 years ago

      I never said I believed in this idea. In fact, I don't at all. I just thought it was an interesting concept to think about. As far as contradiction goes: That's on your perception of the matter. Different people see it differently.

      And yes, I tried to expand on what I've learned of solipsism, whether the claims I made have already been stated in different words or not.

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  • graphic_nature
    12 years ago

    mind.
    blown.

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  • Flaberghasted
    12 years ago

    Im watching tv so...i dont give a crap

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  • Rocket_9
    12 years ago

    You saw that movie "Inception" with Leonardo DiCaprio and thats where you get this nonsense from. Shakespeare or Einstein (one of them) said... "I think, therefore... I'am". So, from that I deduce... I think that you are a moron, therefore you ARE a moron.

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  • DolphinAngel
    12 years ago

    To go further... you never can be guilty for sth. because everything you ever saw, spoke with etc. will chance your way of thinking and your actions in the future... so your character is formed by others not by yourself and thats why we should blame society for producing murders and so on!

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  • Avant-Garde
    12 years ago

    I love this, but wouldn't it all mean that none of us exists? You should write a book on this.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    12 years ago

    Well done on basically reciting the theory behind inception to us. plonker.

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  • snowyd
    12 years ago

    What's wrong with thinking philosophically? If anything age limits your ability to see the world in an altered mindset; in a sense you grow less wise because you believe you know better, rather than questioning everything that is.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    But only if you make it from my short-term memory to my long-term memory. If you are special, you might.

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  • Lotus420
    12 years ago

    So does this mean we're all just sitting, staring blankly at a white wall imagining our lives and everything/everyone in them?

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  • i330
    12 years ago

    This is an interesting version of solipsism; I like it.

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    • flutterhigh
      12 years ago

      Isn't it pretty standard metaphysical solipsism?

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      • i330
        12 years ago

        Actually you're right, now that I read it again it is pretty standard. There was a sentence that I interpreted in a different way that made me think it was a bit unusual, but coming back to it I see that I read it wrong and it's normal. For metaphysical solipsism. Which itself is a pretty normal thing to think about at some point in your life, I think we all do this.

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        • flutterhigh
          12 years ago

          The part that struck me was the idea that other people are manifestations of parts of our personality. That puts an odd Dissociative Identity spin on it that's pretty entertaining.

          But yeah. Consciousness is interesting.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    i like it

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  • Dad
    12 years ago

    I can't believe I thought like this once too, when I was very young.
    There are good points in growing up.

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