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#skepticism
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
How can subjective observers know the world?
how can subjective observers know anything about the observer-independent world? And as we saw in Chapter 6, we cannot assume that we can know anything about the objective world.
Skeptical about building a conscious machine
physics to build flying machines even without a final “theory of everything”–style complete understanding of the physical laws that govern the universe. I am skeptical that the same is possible with building a conscious machine.
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Three grades of solipsism
The view that I am the only person who has mental states is called “solipsism.” Solipsism comes in at least three different grades. One, the most extreme form: I am the only person in the world who has mental states; and indeed in some forms, nothing exists in the world except…
Other minds and the external world
The skepticism about other minds that follows from Cartesian dualism is just a special case of a much more general kind of skepticism: skepticism about the existence of the external world.
God is not a deceiver
assuming that God exists, he argues that God cannot be a deceiver. Because of God’s perfection, it would be inconsistent to suppose that he could be a deceiver, for deceit is an imperfection. But if God is not a deceiver, then there must exist an external world, and I must have…