Thinking on your own isn’t something to be proud of if what you think on your own is stupid. I hope you understand this.
Causation isn’t the same as correlation. If there is something intelligence relies on, it is correlation and not causation.
The ability to predict requires that there is a correlation, and not necessarily causation, between variables. That they are statistically dependent. And even this might be too strict of an understanding of what intelligence requires in order to operate. I am not sure. What I am sure of is that it does not require causality.
You should Google what causality means. Then, you should Google what other people have said on the subject long before you were even born (e.g. Bertrand Russell in his “On the Notion of Cause” which you can read online for free.)
You are simply not right.
You need to stop with your posturing and listen carefully to what is being said. And what is being is said is that just because you actively explore reality (i.e. venture into “the great unknown”) does not mean you will find what you want to find (i.e. order.) Whoever thinks so – and clearly, you think so – is a blind optimist. Not something to be proud of.
I am not against exploring reality. I am against making conclusions that are not based on evidence but merely on personal preference. If you think that reality is ordered NO MATTER WHAT then that means that you’re not guided by evidence but by your personal preferences.
Your logic can be used, or rather abused, by any theist. God simply exists and whoever says otherwise is simply a solipsist who is unwilling to go out searching for Him. Instead, these non-believers prefer to stay within their comfort zones and believe that there is no God.
I am pretty sure that you are utterly incapable of explaining what you mean by “outside world” and “reality”. To you, these are entirely mystical terms.
You have an unrealistic understanding of how intelligence works. You think that it is something that it is not. Something rather idealistic. And whenever someone honest comes along and makes a claim that intelligence is something less than what you think it is, you have no choice but to accuse them of inferiority in the form of subjectivism, solipsism, idealism and so on.
It is actually YOU who are denying reality because you are placing your models of reality, which are supposed to be a dependent variable, in front of sensory experience, which is supposed to be an independent variable. For example, you think that the universe is ordered NO MATTER WHAT. In other words, that it is IMPOSSIBLE for it to be chaotic. Not because that’s what evidence suggests but because you want it to be that way.
So please, don’t give me your ten cent lectures on the effects of sheltering when it is pretty clear that it is YOU who suffers from sheltering. You are so used to the universe being one way (i.e. ordered) that you cannot so much as imagine what it is like for the universe to be another way (i.e. chaotic.)
You think that the universe is MADE for intelligence. You think that the universe CARES about intelligence. You think that it is so preocuppied with intelligence that it makes sure that every event has a cause.
Can you quote me saying that? You have to prove that you are not hallucinating. Because that’s what I think you’re doing.
We have nothing but senses to inform our actions. They are the ground upon which models of reality are constructed. To think otherwise, to think that models of reality are more fundamental than the senses, or that something else, such as “intuition” or “sixth sense”, is more fundamental, is the definition of subjectivism (or solipsism, as you prefer to call it.) And that’s exactly what you’re doing.
It is ENTIRELY MEANINGLESS to speak of anything beyond, anything that transcends, our experience. That is not solipsism. That is realism.
The word “empiricism” comes from the Greek “empiria” which means nothing other than experience.
You are a solipsist because you think the universe functions according to your expectations.
There you go. You believe in meaningless concepts.
The universe does not begin.
The universe does not end.
This is not because the universe is infinite.
Because nothing is.
This is because the universe is a meaningless concept.
It is meaningless because it does not refer to anything specific.
The word “universe” is often described as the sum of everything that was, everything that is and everything that will be. But only what was, and even then, only what is known to us, can be said to be meaningful. Everything else is meaningless.
The universe is a meaningless concept because it transcends personal experience.
Only what refers to our personal experience is meaningful.
There you go. Models of reality predicate sensory information.
That only proves you’re a retard. Every scientist will agree that intelligence only produces “educated guesses”.
Intelligence is not a supernatural ability that allows us to travel to the future in order to sense what’s going to happen.
You just described yourself and you did so perfectly.