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by Joker_vD 38 days ago
This side is traditionally called "idealist", and it usually very quickly collapses into solipsism of different varieties.

There is not much you can show against the "there is a single existing soul that has many different persons (as opposed to each person having a different, personal soul) that dreams about the 'physical' reality" hypothesis except "I don't think my imagination is that good", really.

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What I reject most about idealism is that it is free. Life is hard and expensive, but soul is free. How come? Is our soul understood like a spherical cow?
> How come?

Well, you gotta spend the eternity somehow, so maybe the soul just got bored and started inventing miserable experiences for itself.

Yes, it's ridiculous.

"Yes."