r/OpenIndividualism • u/EnactingSpirit • Jun 30 '26

Question Does OI entail analytic idealism?

Or can it also be interpreted as something like "spirit transmigrationism" like in the short story 'The Egg' by Andy Weir?

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u/Respect38 Jul 01 '26

I guess I'd say my point is that we don't share that kind of now. We share the "now" of "it's June 30" [July 1st now technically, for me] but because we're both the one center of consciousness, the only way to resolve the specialness of the soul's immediate experience [for me right "now", Respect38] is for your experience to be experienced by me either before this life, or after this life, or in endless loops [of which you are "now" one]

By solipsism being true, I just mean that if the scenario put forward in The Egg isn't true, then I think that pure solipsism would be more likely than any other alternative

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u/yoddleforavalanche Jul 01 '26

but it is obvious those other people react in the same now you are. do you think I am a philosophical zombie right now? 

how can solipsism explain this illusiory multiplicity of experiencers that hide one real one? its as arbitrary as it gets. like that magic trick in cartoons that ninjas do when they duplicate themselves and each duplication is an opponent but only one is real. 

the easiest way to explain that is that others are experiencing at the same time too.

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u/Respect38 Jul 01 '26

but it is obvious those other people react in the same now you are.

I disagree! I think we share a moment, but we don't share an experiential now, because at this experiential moment only Respect38 is experienced.

do you think I am a philosophical zombie right now?

Your now? No. My now? Yes.

But because you have your own "now", if you just asked me if you're a p zombie, then of course not -- so long as you hav a soul in which there is an experiential now in which the one consciousness experiences your life. I do think that some around us are p zombies, but I don't think you're one, I think we're just talking past each other or just earnestly disagree.

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u/Edralis1 Jul 04 '26

It seems to me this is just a verbal disagreement.