That is, since I have the privilege of accessing my own mind and mental experience but am unable to do so to others, we infer the fact that there is a possibility that other people are mindless or even mindless robots. When answering the question by analogy, one might question the fact that the topic, if I have a similar reaction towards something you also do, then we both have minds might be an outlier to the problem. It is possible that I am the only person who has a mind, which therefore makes the analogy a special case. If we reconstruct the thesis from creating a single correlation between a single mind and a single behavior to the correlations of many mental states with behaviors, we can confirm the thesis that the behavior of others is caused by a mental state. Just like when you feel sad, the resulting behavior could be different methods of grief, and when you are happy, different behaviors of euphoria occur. If the following pattern of behavior follows that state of mind, then it is fair to say that the analogy argument does not just apply to one person as a definition of solipsism, but rather that other people behave just as I do, so we all have a
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