Under solipsism, there is nothing it is like to be other people; they have no inner life; they exist only as appearances in the personal psyche of the dreamer. As such, whatever empirical evidence one brings to bear and whatever one says to a solipsist must be regarded by the solipsist as figments of his or her own imagination, which renders solipsism unfalsifiable. So the objection here is that, by being unfalsifiable, solipsism—and therefore idealism—is beneath philosophical debate. Naturally, idealism is not solipsism. Under idealism, there is something it is like to be other living creatures; they also have private inner lives. So idealists take other people seriously as legitimate sources of reported experiences and views, not just as figments of one’s own imagination. Moreover, idealists acknowledge that there is a world outside and independent of their personal (dissociated) psyche. They simply do not acknowledge that this world is ontologically distinct from consciousness itself.
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