Solipsism is "the belief that only I myself and my own experiences are real, while anything else—a physical object or another person—is nothing more than an object of my consciousness"Well, just think about it!
Can you really KNOW the world at all except through your perceptory organs?
Can you really experience the present when all of the information about things comes through your perceptions and it takes TIME for the perception to be realised in the brain?
We KNOW that perception can be easily fooled with all sorts of tricks that we have been shown - so how do we know that we can rely on those perceptions.
It may well be that the people to whom we currently attribute psychiatric labels have a better grasp on reality than we do.
Let's take the case of certain prophets over time. Many of these folk would have ended up in an institution today and their prophecies called the ravings of lunatics. However because poeple listended to them in those days, they have come down to us today in our history as inspiring and righteous people.
Assuming for a moment that some of the people among us, those who believe that the end of the world is nigh and that we are living the last days, that the Saviour will return and cleanse the world taking with him to paradise only the righteous (ie those who share this belief system), are right.
Will we actually recognise this person or throw him/her into an institution and feed them drugs to help them function in the 'real world'?
Is this 'real world' the one that we have made up as a result of our perceptions?
Hmm . . .
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