True, I may go a step further:
In those terms as I defined an 'earlier solipsism' in another post, there is
NO "real solipsist".
Maybe in the nuthouse. Or on his way to one.
Game-playing is human and many fall into substituting their game for the
real world. From Hitler to a nun.
I was not thinking on the "intermittent solips" as pointed to by some
(reasonable) list-colleagues.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 10:59 PM
Subject: RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test
John,
Even a real solipsist might eat, sleep, talk to people etc., all under the
impression that everything is a
construction of his own mind. People willingly suspend disbelief in order to
indulge in fiction or computer
games, and a solipsist may believe that he is participating in the greatest
and most perfect of games. I
think that most real solipsists would eventually go mad and start to believe
that the game is reality. Maybe
that's why there aren't that many of them around.
Stathis Papaioannou
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> From: jamikes.domain.name.hidden
> To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> Subject: Re: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:51:28 -0400
>
>
> Stathis:
> wouod a "real" solipsist even talk to you?
> John M
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stathis Papaioannou" <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
> To: "Bruno Marchal" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:21 PM
> Subject: RE: Reality, the bogus nature of the Turing test
>
>
>
> Bruno Marchal writes:
>
> > About solipsism I am not sure why you introduce the subject. It seems
> > to me nobody defend it in the list.
>
> Is anyone out there really a solipsist? Has anyone ever met or talked to a
> real solipsist?
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
>
>
> >
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