(January 18, 2016 at 8:16 pm)Rhythm Wrote: How many times have I asked you how you think something works, and you've replied with "the same way you think it works, idealism subsumes all of that."?That's because you keep asking me questions in which your world view has an appropriate scope. As I said, if I want to build a bridge that will stand, I'll build it pretty much the same way you would.
Ask me about beauty or art, and we'll be in a world of ideas which is mostly out of scope of the material world view. Ask me what it's like to experience anything, and hang on my every word as I describe my ideas about drinking hot chocolate-- because as soon as the subjective perspective arrives, the scope of the material world view is useless.
You will inevitably argue about taste buds, chemistry, brain function, or evolved tastes. But you will not make any headway into qualia with your world view, because yours is a world view about objects, and is insufficient to deal with the subjective agent.
In short, if you ask me how a car works, I'll talk about gears and pistons. But this is not the only kind of question worth asking. If you ask me "What's it like to drive an early-model Ferrari?" then I'll have to attempt to notice and report the complex forms and patterns at play in my mind as I am having that experience.
