RE: Short essay on dualism, idealism, & materialism as concerns Q: What is a table?
February 25, 2017 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2017 at 7:22 pm by bennyboy.)
Mudhammam, I have a couple questions about how you view things as we normally consider them. For example, in the case of a wave of water, what's a "wave," really? Is it an illusion? Is it a kind of pre-set form which expresses itself through a medium like water? Is it just a name for something water does in our experience?
Given that we know the properties we see in a table don't exist on the most fundamental level of physics (nothing is actually "hard" at the QM level, nothing is "flat" under a microscope, and it seems to be the way humans view things that make those concepts meaningful), would you describe the modern scientific view of reality as materialist, idealist, dualist, or something else?
Given that we know the properties we see in a table don't exist on the most fundamental level of physics (nothing is actually "hard" at the QM level, nothing is "flat" under a microscope, and it seems to be the way humans view things that make those concepts meaningful), would you describe the modern scientific view of reality as materialist, idealist, dualist, or something else?
