Race be buggered, I'm not even convinced that this forum or the keyboard I'm allegedly typing this on are real. Can anyone prove this to be the case? :kundor:

you're mean :P

and that's real enough.

But am I truly mean? Do I really exist or am I simply a delusion?

we're all paranoid delusions in Merin's head :eek:

Or alter egos of a Chiswick-based economist. If he or Chiswick actually exist :s

maybe we're all alternate personalities of one person sitting at one computer and this whole forum is a giant demented discussion he's having with himself :kundor:

The solipsistic view is that nothing outside your own head is real as it cannot be conclusively proven or disproven. Therefore, you are the entirety of the universe.

Provided of course I exist in the first place and am not a figment of the imagination of someone else who is in reality the entirety of the universe. Or at least thinks he is :kundor:

Wrong. Solipsism is exclusively self-centric. If you believe you are controlled or created by some outside agency, that is determinism, not solipsism.

And what if I'm not entirely convinced that anything (including myself) exists at all?

That is "Cartesian skepticism."

well, I don't believe that cartesian skepticism exists at all :mischief:

I'll take that view, then. I think that sums everything up nicely.