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From
14/07/2005 23:52:16
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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14/07/2005 23:40:36
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Politics
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Miscellaneous
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01028993
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>Interesting. Does a dead body have imagination? I thought a dead man is just a lump of lifeless rotting flesh that eventually turns to dust.

Personally, I believe in life after death. But the idea here is to grasp the point of view of somebody thinks everything apart from himself is imaginary or something.

Of course, there are several options here - and different solipsists will likely have different ideas about what, if anything, happens after their death.

Some SF stories offer interesting options, about the subject of "reality"; for example, I liked the story "They" by Robert Heinlein (the whole world was set up to distract the solipsist from more important things).

Then there is a story by Stanislaw Lem, where a scientists builds machine consciences, who get all their input (sensory experiences) from tapes.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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