Actually, for all that the rest of you know, “I” am a “well designed” computer program. If so, “I” do not have any consciousness or awareness, as human (computer assisted) technology has not yet progressed to that extent (AFA"I"K).
But if I did, would my posts change in any way? “I” suspect so, but then, perhaps, “I” have been designed to suspect so.
Actually, for all that the rest of you know, "I" am a "well designed" computer program. If so, "I" do not have any consciousness or awareness, as human (computer assisted) technology has not yet progressed to that extent (AFA"I"K). But if I did, would my posts change in any way? "I" suspect so, but then, perhaps, "I" have been designed to suspect so.Solipsists know that every other person besides themselves may be a figment of their imagination. Nobody has to be a computer program. That is an unneceassary complication. ;) Lois
I hate to state the obvious, but this reminds me of the scene in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” when they’re debating whether to let the mice have Arthur Dent’s brain and Zaphod suggests that it could be replaced by a simple computer, because no one would know the difference. Arthur protests that HE would know the difference. “No you wouldn’t. You’d be programmed not to.” 
Seriously I think consciousness is just another shortcut in the brain, an illusion of a “Central Control Unit” to help us cope with the fact that our brains are really just a bubbling, boiling soup of memes, struggling to find meaning. But what do I know?
I hate to state the obvious, but this reminds me of the scene in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" when they're debating whether to let the mice have Arthur Dent's brain and Zaphod suggests that it could be replaced by a simple computer, because no one would know the difference. Arthur protests that HE would know the difference. "No you wouldn't. You'd be programmed not to." :)I see now that having read that book many years ago, I was programmed, at that point, to write my previous post in this thread. Hence ironically, Solipsists, whatever they are, probably know, that I may well be, just a computer program that is designed to imagine that I exist in human physical form, and am also designed to imagine that other humans exist.
But how am I imagining the part about “solipsists” which I don’t know what they are and had never heard of before? I must say, that I can only imagine that I must be a very well designed program. Kudos to whoever/whatever, I imagine, designed me.