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Comment author: smk 20 August 2012 02:39:50PM *  6 points [-]

Some strangely common childhood beliefs:
Everyone except you is a robot
Your life is like the Truman Show

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 20 August 2012 10:38:46PM 0 points [-]

Hehe...to be honest I half-believed those too...not that everyone was a robot, but that everyone was a philosophical zombie. It wasn't until high school that I figured out that for all intents and purposes, I'm a philosophical zombie too.

But in my opinion, those really ARE normal childhood beliefs that are not the result of any neuropathology... beliefs that many philosophers still entertain in the form of solipsism.