RE: A Conscious Universe
February 2, 2015 at 8:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2015 at 8:54 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 2, 2015 at 8:42 pm)Surgenator Wrote:Hmmmm, I may have misread you, or read into your statement something you didn't intend.(February 2, 2015 at 8:17 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Do you not hold that both the brain and the QM particles of which it is made are both "things"? Would you claim that your brain is dualistic because it is made up of "both" QM particles and brain tissue?
I have no idea what lead you to intepret my statement the way you did. Yes, the brain is made out of QM particles, both are things. In idealism, are there elemental ideas ad non-elemental ideas? Are the non-elemental ideas composed out of elemental ideas? If not, you have dualism.
In my view of idealism, yes. Complex ideas are composed by a relationship among multiple elemental ideas. The ideas formed by the human mind are clearly non-elemental.