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The Atheist Experience 26.40 10-02-2022 with Matt Dillahunty and Jim Barrows

The Atheist Experience

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I Don't Use the Scientific Method to Reject Hard Solipsism

Matt Welch: I reject hard solipsism as a presupposition and as a pragmatic thing. My epistemology is probably found here in Tism, which is a merging of foundationalism and coherency that was put together by Susan Hock. He says he doesn't see any reason to think there's a ghost in the machine because we know from neuroscience that virtually every aspect of our identity are alterable through mere physical damage to the brain. The information exists because you and I hopefully share a common set of scribbles; it's a way to convey the information, but it isn't the information itself.

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