1984 Solipsism Is Real
Response 4
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . .” -Philip K. Dick Solipsism is essentially a philosophical idea that nothing exists outside of the consciousness of the individual. Only the self is real because we can only verify our own experiences and no-one else’s. The idea of Solipsism is explored in 1984 as the Party exploits this world view. If reality is inside the mind of individuals, and consciousness can be altered by the Party, then they have the power to change reality into existences of that really never happened. It’s difficult to prove solipsism as it is to prove wrong, for example, one may present an in-depth argument arguing it can’t possibly be true. On the other hand, it is impossible to validate any experiences other than the individual validating their own and therefore impossible to prove that any life is actually alive and not just an entity. I don’t believe in solipsism, since many reasons and situations look like signs that show it cannot be true. From what I’ve read, it seems only one person in the …show more content…
In this case, the one self that can only be known to exist is the Party. The Party is the only thing that can verify its own experiences. Everything the Party imposes has records to prove the existence, whereas people like Winston only have memory to establish a fact, but memory is known to be fuzzy and unreliable, therefore it could not prove anything. As Winston thought “For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory? He tried to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother,” (34) Even when something does exist beyond the goodness of the Party, they are either vaporized it so that there was never such thing to exist, or any pre-existing record of something beyond the goodness was altered to be within
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . .” -Philip K. Dick Solipsism is essentially a philosophical idea that nothing exists outside of the consciousness of the individual. Only the self is real because we can only verify our own experiences and no-one else’s. The idea of Solipsism is explored in 1984 as the Party exploits this world view. If reality is inside the mind of individuals, and consciousness can be altered by the Party, then they have the power to change reality into existences of that really never happened. It’s difficult to prove solipsism as it is to prove wrong, for example, one may present an in-depth argument arguing it can’t possibly be true. On the other hand, it is impossible to validate any experiences other than the individual validating their own and therefore impossible to prove that any life is actually alive and not just an entity. I don’t believe in solipsism, since many reasons and situations look like signs that show it cannot be true. From what I’ve read, it seems only one person in the …show more content…
In this case, the one self that can only be known to exist is the Party. The Party is the only thing that can verify its own experiences. Everything the Party imposes has records to prove the existence, whereas people like Winston only have memory to establish a fact, but memory is known to be fuzzy and unreliable, therefore it could not prove anything. As Winston thought “For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory? He tried to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother,” (34) Even when something does exist beyond the goodness of the Party, they are either vaporized it so that there was never such thing to exist, or any pre-existing record of something beyond the goodness was altered to be within