Schizophrenia Identity and the Refutation of Solipsism

schizophrenia identity and the refutation of solipsism:

assume you weren't living on Earth, a world in which you see many other people. and you start hearing voices. and what you hear is unpredictable, it doesn't seem you are hearing your own thoughts aloud. you would likely assume you were indeed talking to other people. you just can't see them.

however, on Earth, hearing voices is referred to as hallucination, that is, they are unreal. a diagnosis which has a solipsistic bias to it, that the voices are all me. but what if the voices are real but the people you see and interact with aren't, that they are merely simulated people? also a solipsistic take on reality. this matter of solipsism and its various shades needs to to be dealt with. on the one hand we dismiss what we hear as other people and on the other we dismiss what we see as other people.

so what is me and what is another person? consider in a reality where physical motion is not real and the stuff of reality is fixed in space, we can divide space up into personal zones, what i call personal bubble spaces, each centred around the person's head. what is far away from me is not me therefore and must be other people.

extreme schizophrenia is a condition that breaks the rules of the universe. strange things happen. time lapses. teleportation. hearing voices. objects appearing. objects disappearing. images of text suddenly changing while you view them. what it does is raise scepticism about the world. that's probably a good thing.

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Immortality and the Problem of Time

immortality and the problem of time:

time means change. a least bit of matter changes its state constantly. and what is immortality but the preservation of self? if we assumed that a least bit of matter kept changing, never to return to its original state, then that would mean immortality is impossible. we would all have died a long time ago, what we were originally lost forever.

do people really change? it is an oft asked question. you might assume that if the answer is no, then that would mean there is an immortal self, always the same. surely if people really change, that would imply the death of the original person?

but if we assume a least bit of matter may revisit its original state, then immortality is a possible case. the quest for immortality would therefore be to develop a program where every now and then each least bit of matter is returned to its original state.

the other question is about growth. there is no such thing as real growth. there are a finite number of least bits of matter so growth cannot be physical. growth is about learning.

lastly, what if an overzealous program of restoring what was originally resulted in eternal return, that is, a total reset to first time that resulted in an eternal repeat of events? how to protect the linear flow of time? if everything becomes a repeat, at least, there are certain events we would prefer to repeat and not the horrible experiences of the past which should remain once through events.

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