Solipsism and Love...

Could you explain a bit more please?

I believe so. For the other person is an expression of yourself. You are in effect, loving yourself.

What is a Solipsist?

If you can love an illusion, then sure. But eh... who knows.

Logically no I don't think so, but who ever said love was logical?

yes

no... I really don't think so.
How can you truly connect with someone if you don't have the capacity to feel for them and with them?

Ok, so I read this huge long thing on Solipsism since I last posted (this article really messed with my mind btw, lol) And it said

"Another expression of this point is in noting the strong feelings that a human can have for a non-existence character in a movie, or, for a car or boat which is admitted to be completely non sentient. There is no logical or psychological reason to prevent a solipsist caring for observed people, even if the solipsist is completely convinced of their non-existence."

So, it still isn't logical, but I suppose they could love someone, in a weird kind of way. Idk, that might not be what your looking for....

Much Love,
Danielle

"I believe so. For the other person is an expression of yourself. You are in effect, loving yourself."

^^I couldn't agree anymore than that. That is a very valid point.

Wow, brain overload. To be honest I dont really know. Logically I would think no, but like as other people have said love isn't logical and can be seen as a way of loving yourself. Depends how you want to look at it.

I think it would be really interesting to consider the implications of the following idiom on solipsism;

'the map is not the territory'.

In other words, what you think and experience as real is merely your interpretation of everything that actually is real.

Therefore everything could exist in the mind, because that is the only real sentient and semantic processing and understanding of knowledge, but similarly, everything could not exist in the mind, because that is merely the way we percieve everything that actually does exist.

Hmm. Slight tangent. Back to love. I think solipsists need to work backwards, and consider human behaviour as evidence and postulation of the existence of external minds to their own.

Reality is what you percieve it to be.