Consider the words on the screen. There are two sources of information.

  1. The words, how they’re arranged and such.

  2. The meaning that you assign to the words. Meaning drawn from a lifetime of memories.

99% of the information comes from the assigned meaning. So 99% of what’s going on here is you talking to yourself.

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    5 hours ago

    ???

    I mean, words aren’t just used by yourself. Many people collectively assigned a meaning to specific words. How is this solipcism?

    Words are ways to encode ideas like 0 and 1s in a computer or flashed of light as in a morse code.

    Words are a way to express ideas from your brain to another brain.

    Flowchart:

    Your Brain -> Idea -> Word -> Spoken -> Vibration in air -> Interpreted by another person’s ear -> Word -> Idea -> The other person’s Brain

    Does that make sense?

    Its not solipcism… idk what you mean lol

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    (Is OP high? 🤔)