SOLIPSISM

Solipsism, in philosophy, is an extreme form of subjective idealism that denies that the human mind has any valid ground for believing in the existence of anything but itself. The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. This theory states that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing. Solipsism, technically, is an extreme form of skepticism, at once illogical and irrefutable. This belief further implies that only the self is real and that the self cannot be aware of anything else except itself. The idea that nothing matters except yourself. That the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist. It holds that you are the only conscious being in existence. The cosmos sprang into existence when you became sentinent and it will vanish when you die. All of this leads to the belief that the whole of reality and the external world and other people are merely representations of the individual self, having no independent existence of their own, and might in fact not even exist. The solipsist firmly and unequivocally believes that they are the only real thing in the universe.