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Is language mostly solipsistic? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

The words, how they're arranged and such.
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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 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

(Is OP high? 🤔)