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Originally Posted by machine  Look at it like this: the SR model would be like you dying, then when you died you woke up somewhere else and said, "Wow, I had this dream - I was on a planet called earth and there were all these other people there." etc..
The SR model is similar to what you experience when you are asleep at night and you dream. You see other people, yourself, an environment and it all interacts. When you wake up you understand all of that was only a dream - you aren't concerned if someone dies in your dream. The same holds true for Subjective Reality. If there is only ONE consciousness, and it is seemingly appearing in all of these forms (people, worlds, nature, animals, etc..), from that point of view, why would it matter how many 'people' died. |
Thank you for taking the time to explain some things, Machine.
The idea that I am simply a part of your dream is solipsism. I read Steve's article about why SR is not solipsism and I still don't completely get the difference. There is a glimmer, though. He does say that within the SR belief we all exist (as opposed to the solipsism paradigm in which only one person does.) That would make us all
people. Not "people". Wouldn't it?
From a solipsism POV, the answer to my first question (about what gives you the right) would be easily answerable and the answer to the second question would be wholly irrelevant. What I'm hoping, by asking those questions, is that their answers within the SR paradigm will illuminate the SR lens for people like me who are really trying to grasp this, but so far have not.