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Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
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RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
(September 15, 2015 at 6:19 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: Only if you subscribe to this Cartesian view. 
do you consider the view incoherent? or do you not subscribe to it because you don't personally favor it? in which case you're basing an objection of a personal preference rather than sound reason.

Captain Scarlet Wrote:We can be certain we are conscious, and we can be certain that we are conscious of something.  This means there is an external reality.
I would agree that is true, but it is not necessarily true. by what we experience, I would say there is an external reality. however, I believe this external reality is a simulation created by another mind. this other mind contains all reality and has nothing external to it, but when it comes to our minds there are things external to them.

Captain Scarlet Wrote:Introspection is useful but it is demonstrabley not the optimal way of uncovering truths. What truths have been uncovered through Introspection?
besides the proof of self existence René Descartes came up with when he founded epistemology?

Captain Scarlet Wrote:Truth requires extrospection and perception through our senses.
I don't often agree with David Hume, but one thing I did agree with is anything a posteriori (gather through the senses) only tells you what's possible but not necessarily what's true. anything a priori (such as things tautologically known) are known to be true.

Captain Scarlet Wrote:To hold solipsism and idealism as a real possibility is to deny the very things you need to affirm idealism and solipsism.  A blind man cannot form the concept of colour, someone who promotes idealism cuts off their own head, in order to state "look I have no head".
I somewhat agree... however in my idealistic view i would say concepts are introduced to us by experiences formed by a mind external to my own mind. thus this problem doesn't occur in my view.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
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RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by Rational AKD - September 15, 2015 at 2:09 pm
RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by Cato - September 18, 2015 at 12:16 am

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