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The Philosophers’ Chestnut

שו”תThe Philosophers’ Chestnut
asked 7 years ago

In the SD
Good week, and peace to the esteemed Rabbi,
I wanted to ask the Rabbi, is there a way for us to deal with the famous question that asks whether Reuven’s subjective experience is the same as Shimon’s?
As far as I know, the Rabbi often uses the fact that we have intuition to solve questions of analogy, and I also saw that you solved the famous question about the problem of other minds with this. But I don’t think this method will be useful in this case. Because although intuition can show that the psycho-physical structure (including consciousness) is present in both. It has no ability to experience how the other experiences.
So I wanted to ask,
A. Does this still solve the problem? Or does the rabbi have another idea for a solution?
on. Does this question even have a definitive answer? After all, the main thing is that the experience does indeed describe reality in a coherent way in itself, and therefore that is enough for us. Just as there are many languages ​​in the world, but with the help of all of them it is possible to reach the same understanding of reality (not exact, but overall the metaphor is reasonable).


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