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No. Because if you look into the work of Benardo Kastrup, he posits MAL (Mind at Large) aka GOD, is a universal mind or consciousness, which has undergone several dissaossiative states, creating all other minds, known as called "alters," which is what happens when a single mind has multiple personalities. And those other minds are literally different from one another: they know the other ones exist, but do not know what they know, becuse they are literally unique, despite being born from the same mind.How do you test that hypothesis (that other minds exist)? Using your senses? How do you ever get outside your sense experience to test it?
In other words, it's solipsistic.
What's even more interesting, an "alter" that claims to be blind, will actually be unable to see, when that personality is in charge of the person; they will have different heart rates, so on and so forth...So the senses of that person, which are function normally, will not function at all, as that alter's part of the brain will literally be shut off.
Bernardo rejects solipsism for these reasons, because other minds can exist, whether you sense them or not, does not mean they do not exist.
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