In response to Avery - full post here


Note this is not entirely related to your post; I simply wanted to comment on Solipsism, and was reminded of that when I saw your post.

I think that felt reasons are certainly limited and are especially subjective. Michael Levin, as you pointed out, is a prime example of that fact. Levin assumes that because he finds the idea of homosexuality repulsive, everyone must also find the same thing.

I think that the idea of solipsism is strikingly more interesting because most of humanity feels that it is wrong due to the fact that they live in this apparently empirically observable universe. I agree that it would be best to not deny the possibility that solipsism could indeed be correct. I do think, however, that there are benefits to assuming it is not. It does appear as though the empirically observable universe, even if we make all of it up, does affect us. For example, if we decided that nobody actually exists and thereby concluded that it would be okay to punch a police officer in the face, we will find out that the figments of our imagination will throw is in what appears to be an actual prison. Even if we claim to know that the prison is not real, we have no way to escape it.