p.s. on the Schopenhauer post

p.s. My Schopenahuerian friend says this:

“However, Schopehaur does say that the subject could be an insect: ‘the existence of this whole world remained forever dependent on that first eye that opened, were it even that of an insect'”

First of all, he says insect, not rock. But yes, I think I said “human” in the last post and shouldn’t have. I should have said “human or possibly animal,” as I usually do when dealing with all such cases other than Descartes (who famously excludes animals from res cogitans).