This is a simple concept, in the programmer's term: idea is an interface between the mind and the object. Without the interface the idea and the mind cannot connect.
For most solipsists ( People who believe that, their mind is the only thing that exists - someone like me ) the question of external world is an interesting explanation.
They believe, mind is an immaterialistic-fabric and that is the only thing to ever exist, all the other things in the external environment are just objects with which the mind can interface using an Idea!
So, another question springs up here: What of the other people in the environment, who have their own minds!! - According to the solipsist there is only one rule:"My mind is the only thind that exists all other minds are not minds but objects instead, which inturn can be connected/interfaced using an idea"
Since every "Mind" is aware that they are alive in reality only when they are capable of generating ideas/thoughts, this sub-plot present an unusual and fascinating twist on the concept - to explain it better i ll quote Mart Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger" of Eseldorf ( Esel = stupid ; dorf = village ; syn: village of stupid people )
"..In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!...You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier. It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you( as a thought ). And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"
Scary, but more realistic than the reality itself that you perceived.!
Well then,"How can you notice that you were dreaming? Only by awakening from your dream. So, how can you awake from your life?". All you Zombies.!
You are the thought that rules the universe, but you are in such a state of worldy penace , to the extent that you are unaware that you rule the universe or even, in fact, that the universe exists.
Following this concept, defining death would be easier: The point where your mind ceases to generate ideas, it may be because of the follwoing reason: A mind that reaches self-awareness, it understands that it does not exist as Mr.XYZ or Ms.PQR, instead that as a thought itself, all matter, pain, age, disease would mean nothing - no point in existing as a thought if you know this ultimate reality!. Moksha. The mind just pushes its self-destruction button and poof.! - Defining Death. You are God, you are the universe, You are a Thought, you are a mind.
These things doesn't seem to be in common-sense, but that is what solipsism is about.-Mind and Insanity- everyone is insane, until his thoughts exists - because sanity would be attained only when the mind dies.
Don't you know that Dogs dream ?, they of course think and generate thoughts!
Many a times your mind would have tricked your brain, by making you believe an action which is happening to you at that instance for very first time, would seem to have happened sometime in past or for a micro-second you belived that its weird to explain, but say it this way:
- Monday, 27th, 2017: There is a flash/dream of Mr.XYZ going to strange place and getting a banana from market, and there he notices this old lady with green outfit smiling at him.. Poof! Dream over.
--- Note this point: Mr.XYZ doesn't remembers or is unable to recall the dream after he wakes up. And he goes on with his normal life. That evening he gets an urgent call asking him to visit his client at india. He has never been to india ever before.He leaves to india. --
- Thursday,30th, 2017: Mr.XYZ finsihes off the work and moves to have a look around. He feels hungry and looks over to have a snack, he reaches a market nearby, and first thing he notices is a ripe banana, he goes for it with strange feeling that, this has happened to me before... and next i would see a smiling-lady, before he completes his thought, a store lady, wearing a green-outfit smiles at him and asks, "Sir, how could i help you..!"
--- This makes no sense, but whats all this wierd stuff all about ?
See, all this science, religion, god, career, family, friends, television wall these worldly things are just figments, that your mind is learning, and until it learns itself, it would exist.
Okay Mister, I agree but what of the people/minds that die of accident: "They don't die instead your mind generates a thought that he is dead": and Your Mind is insane.
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"It hated me because I talked to it.""You TALKED to it?" exclaimed Ford. "What do you mean you talked to it?"
"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself
into it's external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length,
and explained my view of the universe to it, " said Marvin.
"And what happened? " pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide, " said Marvin.
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