Nemra

@Carl-Richard, I think complete proof of solipsism would be to say that other's private experience is imagined, which is not to say that one can not imagine them by closing one's eyes or thinking about it. It's true that the experience of others is non-existent to each one of us; however, that's not a proof of solipsism, because then how are people aware of stuff in your experience.

When I started watching Better Call Saul, I didn't know that it was connected to Breaking Bad. I didn't even know what Breaking Bad was. It was so special to me until I watched Breaking Bad and I had my awakening.

What's up?

Project Hail Mary. It was great. You would expect to see horror stuff, but you would be surprised. It gets very emotional and at times it's funny. The movie mostly relied on practical effects.

I don't think so. I watched both TV shows many times, and I still love Better Call Saul. Bob Odenkirk's acting was way better in Better Call Saul. But I think the plot of Breaking Bad was way crazy, and the character development was great. After watching Breaking Bad, I felt like Better Call Saul was meant to give some context to Breaking Bad.

I didn't like it as much as Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, but I was relieved to see Jesse get out of being tortured and have a better life.

I watched Better Call Saul first, but I would stick to Breaking Bad. After watching Breaking Bad, it all made sense.

It's like mirrors facing each other. Infinite mirrors. Infinite reflection.

If you remembered everything from your dreams, wouldn't your dreams last long? Once, I slept and woke up immediately, without dreaming. It felt very strange.

Gosh. In my nightly dreams, my waking life doesn't exist. My nightly dreams have only been the only one there is with it's own rules. And it doesn't make sense to say my waking life is more real than my nightly dreams, even though it feels more real.

I've been entertaining the thought that history started from my birth. All I have ever known about anything couldn't have happened before my birth because I wasn't experiencing all this stuff. But at the same time, I think, why would reality be limited to only my experience? What is special about it? Is the imagination so powerful that I can imagine that there is a private life happening to others while my experience has been the only human experience?

But don't you have a first-person experience? The wild thing is that the people in my first-person experience could tell me stuff that could happen to me, even though I only have my experience. This is crazy!

I don't know, but people can be too confident sometimes.

Noted. @Leo Gura, also, I'm kind of confused when you said that somewhat like the first-person experience is the true one. How is it possible that we both have a first-person experience? If mine is the only true one, how else could you be aware of your experience if you didn't experience the world like I do?

At first, I thought you were being real. It's not far from being real, which makes it funny.

Or comedic genius.

@Leo Gura, by glancing over all of David Chapman's sources and Substack, he doesn't strike me as a materialist at all. He is into Dzogchen Buddhism. Even on the homepage of his Substack, it is written, "Enlightenment is our natural state".

It was impressive.

So, the person, David Chapman, who runs metarationality.com also runs meaningness.com vividness.live buddhism-for-vampires.com betterwithout.ai His Substack: meaningness.substack.com

Thanks. It's been on my mind to read it since it was mentioned here recently. Also, do you think that source could help develop one's rationality significantly?

Let me rephrase it. What do people with PhDs undergo that you think makes them grasp rationality? You say you must have a PhD to grasp rationality, and then you also say it depends on the job if it's technical. So, I wanted to know how much practice I'm missing.

I was thinking about how are people able to point to and be aware of things in your experience if their POV is imagined by you. How is it possible that it is imagined, yet what they say can happen to you? If they are aware of their experiences, then their experience must exist; yet, it doesn't. If it exists as a totally separate thing, then we have more than one instance of experience. However, if your experience is all there is, then the experience of another person should be all there is too. Interestingly, every person you meet will tell you that they are also having an experience. Paradoxically, every possible experience that there could be must be your experience otherwise you would limit yourself to only your lifetime's experience; however, they aren't happening to you as of the moment. What do you think is going to come into existence when you die? How can it be that you somehow came into existence to have your experience and then you die and vanish, but then another thing or even person (that is not you) comes into existence with their experience after you die? That's absurd. You cannot claim to be everything and then say the POV of another is not yours, even if it's not accessible to you. The implication of this is very tough to swallow, because you would be everyone you hate, not only in terms of appearance (i.e., those people who appear to you), but also in terms of experience, because you would literally go through everyone's experience.

Did you know what the job I mentioned is about?

You said it depends on the job, and then I wanted to know if you think that the job I mentioned can develop one's rationality in a way similar to what you believe people with PhDs have developed.