Your are a pigment of my imagination

You are quite welcome :) 1) Solipsism is an unfalsifiable hypothesis and thus is not a valid theory. a) The reason it is an unfalsifiable hypothesis is because what ever evidence to the contrary I provide, one can just say "Well that is in my mind as well." No evidence will suffice due to the nature of the argument. One cannot provide evidence that will satisfy a solipsist (yet I will try anyhow). b) The reason this is bad is due to the fact that I can make any claim that is unfalsifiable and it will be equally as valid. For example I can claim that an Invisible Pink Unicorn exists. This is an unfalsifiable hypothesis since nothing you can do can disprove it and this is bad because it provides us no insight into the world, all it does is pose an interesting question. 2) Turn, you could be a part of my mind. a) I can make the same claim that you are merely a "pigment" of my imagination with the same validity as you make the converse claim. The problem with this is, I assume, you would disagree and say you are your own entity and that leaves us with an infinite regression of "You're in my mind.""No you're in mine!" It solves nothing. 3) Isolation and social interaction a) The reason there must be other organisms outside out own mind is due to the fact that we as humans are social creatures and we thrive in a social environment. Humans cannot be isolated without very specific and noticeable symptoms showing. There are many symptoms of sensory deprivation (isolation) but the most noticeable is hallucinations. When people are deprived of their senses for more than 15 minutes massive hallucinations ensue comparable to the effects of LSD.[1] Of course one could say that we have grown accustomed to these hallucinations that we wouldn't see them but that is not true seeing as when we put people in isolation they exhibit radically different behavior thus we can see if we are isolated. Here is a quote from a BBC experiment regarding total isolation: "Of the six volunteers, two coped well. One woman was convinced her sheets were wet. Three experienced auditory and visual hallucinations - snakes, oysters, tiny cars and zebras. After the 48 hours were complete, the same tests were conducted. The results indicated that the volunteers' ability to complete the simplest tasks had deteriorated. One subject's memory capacity fell 36% and all the subjects had trouble thinking of words beginning with the letter "F". All four of the men (neither of the two women) had markedly increased suggestibility."[2] So here we can reach a conclusion. We can look for the symptoms of isolation and if we find them it is safe to conclude one is isolated (not necessarily the only thing that exists but just alone) yet if we do not find them in the majority of humans is it safe to conclude that we are not isolated and thus there are other creatures. And what do we see when we look at the majority of humanity, the only ones that display said symptoms are the ones we put in isolation thus we can conclude that others do exist. 4) You have not fulfilled the burden of proof. All you have said are unwarranted, unfalsifiable claims. I could say that you and I are both in the minds of the IPU with the same certainty and validity as you make your claim yet neither are falsifiable and neither prove anything thus I see no reason to vote for you seeing as you have not fulfilled your BOP so far and have proven nothing. [1] http://www.wired.com... [2] Total Isolation. [TV-series]. United Kingdom: BBC. 2008. (http://en.wikipedia.org...)