(September 16, 2015 at 10:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote: These things don't have objective meaning in a physicalist view, either. Idealism doesn't mean Sky Daddy, it means that the fundamental nature of reality is an expression of universal concepts, rather than concepts being an approximation of some other reality.that is very well put. the universe is conceptual rather than distinct while our concepts are at best approximations.
I think current physics supports this view, by the way. Try and define, in physical terms, what a photon is, for example. You'll end up with something definable ONLY in conceptual terms, and which cannot be modeled or represented in 3 dimensions or 4 in any meaningful way. Sounds like an idea to me.
as for physics, I would agree. the kochen-specker theorem confirmed by Anton Zeilinger showed that in quantum mechanics the outcome obtained by a measurement depends on the context at that time and cannot be predicted prior. this would not make sense given materialism, but makes perfect sense given idealism. though i'm not going into too much detail about quantum mechanics on this thread.
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