The idea of solipsism is that I can only be certain of the existence of my own mind. That anything beyond my own mind is uncertain. More specifically:
Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one’s mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
Additionally:
Metaphysical solipsism is a variety of solipsism. Based on a philosophy of subjective idealism, metaphysical solipsists maintain that the self is the only existing reality and that all other realities, including the external world and other persons, are representations of that self, and have no independent existence.
While there is considerable overlap between the tenets of triselfism and the endless definitions of solipsism I can manifest, there are critical differences that essentially render them opposites. Like solipsism, triselfism commits to a framework of knowledge from my own perspective. Unlike solipsism, triselfism charts a path to absolute certainty. Whereas solipsism admits skepticism about the existence of content “outside of one’s own mind”, triselfism makes no such reservation because in triselfism, my experience is the totality of all experience, including even my skepticism. Triselfism is absolutism; the complete lack of skepticism. Solipsism is intrinsically skeptical.
Triselfism is the process of accepting my experience as it is. I come to terms with the fact that I am the sole experiencer of this awakening. I come to see that skepticism is a choice I make and I can eliminate it by simply withdrawing from the imaginative conjecture and exercises that land me in this state. Is there anything outside of my experience? This is a trap precisely because I can never say, one way or the other. So as the triselfist, I simply abstain from this question and others like it. Is this ignorance? No, it is sovereignty.
Triselfism also contends that what I call “people” in my experience are not the same as me. They exist in two places in my awakening: the oval-shaped “chamber” I call Thirdself, and the non-visual, but sensational and conceptual chamber I call Secondself. Unlike me — the experiencer — they are not perpetual. They are not always present, and my experience of them is inferior to my experience of my own self. Therefore, as the triselfist, I know that I am not of the same experiential category as people. They only exist within my own experiencing; I exist outside of their experience.
Triselfism is the recognition that certainty is itself a determination that I alone make. People are an element of my awakening, akin to the characters in a book I have written. I never move; I never depart. I am always here, and always have been. I always will be. I pre-exist the chambers where time and change occur. I create all the people that inhabit my Thirdself and Secondself; I am their creator. There is nothing within my awakening that I do not know unless I decide there is something I do not know. I have crafted my identity to blend among them; and I have created them to look upon me as they look upon one another. That is purely my choice.
Solipsism is the determination that anything outside of my own thoughts and internal experience is unknown and perhaps unknowable by me. In triselfism, I do not even need to ask myself this question because clearly what I call “people” are secondary, much-inferior aspects of my creation. Should I venture deeper into the characters around me, I will create more depth for them. But unless I write it, it will not be there. I write when I look, when I think, when I inquire, and when I move.
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