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Ep 105: David Deutsch’s “The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 1

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Solopsism

Solopcism is based on no more than a renaming scheme. Solypism insists on referring to objectively different things, such as external reality and my unconscious mind by the same names. But then it has to introduce the distinction through explanations in terms of something like the outer part of myself. Solepism must also postulate the existence of an additional class of processes,. invisible, inexplicable processes, which give the mind the illusion of living in an external t The solepsist who believes that nothing exists other than the contents of one mind, must also believe that the mind is a phenomenon of greater multiplicity than is normally supposed. These thoughts are real. They develop in a complex

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