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an essay arguing against the hard problem of consciousness came up on hacker news and this is one of the rare instances of a comments section on that site in 2026 being enjoyable to read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175140
I guess we're solipsists, huh
why does wiktionary claim solipsism is a euphemism for masturbation. are the anti-solipsists that determined to attack the solipsists
solipsism sure is an overloaded term… we'd need to read serious philosophy to be able to sort out the differences, huh
our belief in solipsism is purely epistemological: we can only know our own experience, so even if we believe other things exist, such beliefs derive from it