Shadow Play

Solipsism is the notion that all of reality is subjective. To Bishop Berkeley,  who said esse est percipi, "to be is to be perceived" nothing would exist without God--keeping the world in his mind's eye. The Matrix was based on the notion of the world as an inner state. Freud envisioned the mind as ego, superego and id, but these were names placed on functions that exist in some reality. In the absence of God, the solipsist finds himself blessedly freed from the notion of consequence. However, can one stand to live with the idea of nothingness? In a famous episode of the Twilight Zone, a condemned man, Dennis Weaver, pleads for his life. If he is executed, he argues, the world will disappear. This episode, "Shadow Play," season #2, episode 26, 1961 is arguably one of the greatest in the history of television. 

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