2024-12-06 at

I am an NPC

I am an NPC. That's gamespeak for non-player-character, or a robot in a fictional world which human-controlled avatars can interact with. I am joking of course, but bear with me. I came to this conclusion after making a snarky comment on a celebrity teacher's post about solipsism and experience as a fully-quantifiable data structure.

I have since the early 2000s been of the opinion that all my experiences are possible to quantify. To detail this a bit more, all my sensory experiences are no-doubt quantifiable, and I generally have no categories of experience which I think of as non-sensory. This is a common, and in some traditions canonical, view among analytical and/or meditative thinkers, but most laypeople don't really think of things that way. Instead the plebeian uses concepts of irreducible emotional and spiritual experience to describe their mental life.

But what if there actually exist such ineffable, incongruous, unquantifiable, intuitive, irreducible experiences in other people ... and it is only I that don't have them? Aha! I must be an NPC!

My friends would probably say : that explains everything.

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