[Agema]

Solipsism is in my view the greatest intellectual dead-end in philosophy. Why say anything? Think anything? Do anything at all? It undermines everything as utterly pointless.


I also strongly disagree with the pessimistic view of humanity you've expounded. We might not be able to fully understand the universe (or God if he exists). But we know a more than we did 50 years ago, a lot more than we did 500 years ago, and a vast whopping great deal more than we did 5000 years ago. Humanity is not a series of weak, ignorant, isolated units. We have a population knowledge. I might not understand Kantian metaphysics, motorcycle maintenance or the literature of Kobo Abe, but other people do, and if I need I can access their knowledge.

I'd also suggest that even if by looking at a tree we only see an iota, the basics of what it does, not knowing the chemistry and biochemistry and physics within, we have actually seen a very significant part of what a tree is. We should enjoy, appreciate and use that, not quail at the thought of how much we don't know about it.