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Solipsism - A Philosophical Drug by Alan Driscoll Solipsism is the belief only in the self; a disbelief in anything besides the self. A belief in solipsism implies a disbelief in the external world, a refusal to accept that all physical stimuli amount to nothing more than the mind experiencing it. These are vital components of solipsism, but theoretically they are not a guarantee of solipsistic belief. The last surviving organism might rightly consider that "mine is the only mind that exists", but this would be a symptom of unfortunate and highly unlikely physical situation, and not the inability to conceive of another being with a mind of its own. Beliefs such as this are often reached through familiar thought processes. From a personal point of view, the universe as I perceive it exists only and precisely because I perceive it. If I was to die, using darkness as a poor metaphor...

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