I agree with you that a total solipsism is too extreme. Perhaps a limited
solipsism would be a reasonable compromise, with, for example, you and
I real, but only us, only we two.
Or perhaps
everything is quite real, completely real - except - except for, say, an
unimportant minority, one person in every hundred, who don't actually exist
but are simply imagined by the rest of us - one in a hundred restaurants
passed by in the street, one in a hundred cars passing, imaginary - all
the rest real. A universe 99% the way it seems.
Or perhaps
everyone is real except the most important of us in psychic terms - the
tyrants and Presidents, movie stars and outlaws. That would be an inversion
of the way things seem, I know.
Or how's this
for solipsism? Maybe I'm the only one, but simultaneously with my experience
of myself, I also am you and the others, a multiple personality, including
roles of animals and plants, of the cells which make up my body, perhaps
of photons; and the false identification each of my split selves makes
of all the others as external, is a projection outward of unintegrated
traits - in a sense, a projection of my denial of identity, of my madness.
Or maybe everything
except me is real.
shmoetry
Surrealism
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