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Essay / The Problem of Other Minds by Caruthers - 1029
That is, given that I have the privilege of access to my own mind and mental experience but am unable to do so do to others, we infer that there are It is possible that other people are mindless or perhaps even mindless robots. Answering the question by analogy, one might question whether the argument that if I have a similar reaction to something that you also do, then we both have a mind could be an outlier to the problem. It is possible that I am the only one with a mind that therefore makes the analogy a special case. If we reconstruct the argument that it is best to establish a single correlation between a single mind and a behavior with the correlations of many mental states with behaviors, we can confirm the argument that the behavior of others is caused by a mental state. Just like when you feel sad, the resulting behavior can be different methods of grieving, and when you feel happy, different euphoria behaviors occur. If the following pattern of behavior follows this mental state, then it is accurate to say that the analogy argument does not only apply to one person as the definition of solipsism, but rather that other people behave exactly like me. So we all have a