What is the "Solipsistic Experience"?

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  • 独我論的体験とは何か
  • 独我論的体験とは何か : 自発的事例に基づく自我体験との統合的理解
  • ドクガロンテキ タイケン トワ ナニ カ : ジハツテキ ジレイ ニ モトズク ジガ タイケン ト ノ トウゴウテキ リカイ
  • Its Integral Understanding in Relation to the "I-experience", Based on Spontaneous Cases
  • 自発的事例に基づく自我体験との統合的理解

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We sought to understand a neglected subjective experience, the "solipsistic experience", by relating it to another such experience, the "I-experience". We interpreted written materials that had been collected incidentally and named "spontaneous cases", trying to read them "as if my own memorandum", and making a "diagram of the structure of inner experience". On comparing these cases, a critical difference between the two types of experience was found: solipsistic experiences include a "crack in the obviousness of the relationship between self and others", while Iexperiences do not. Based on an investigation of Kimura’s concept of the "sense of obviousness of self", both experiences are defined briefly. An I-experience refers to a break in the "obviousness of the individual identity of self", while a solipsistic experience refers to a break in the "obviousness of the self as a ‘species being’ (translation of the German philosophical term Gattungswesen)". An analysis of a novel by Richard Hughes demonstrates that the strange fantasy a child experiences in this text can be used to illustrate these two types of experience.

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