(September 17, 2015 at 3:41 am)bennyboy Wrote:(September 17, 2015 at 2:19 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: Assuming you convince yourself that everything is mind, what comes of it? Will you not go on being motivated for exactly the same reasons you are now?
I don't really need to convince myself. Everything that I experience, including the apparent physical world, is mind. The default position is that I don't need to add anything else, i.e. specify the nature of the source of experience which is not really demonstrable anyway.
But basically, yes. The only difference between a physical world and an idealistic one, in terms of living my life, is that one seems a better fit and the other not so much. It has little to do with the nature of experience which one I believe.
Mind is the faculty of consciouness ->
Conciousness is the is the state of being aware of an external objects and oneself (but it is not the state only of self-awareness, otherwise you would be conscious only of your own consciousness) ->
Awareness is gained through sense perception of the enviornment ->
The senses are self authenticating given any attempt to inavlidate them requires their validity ->
Thus as senses detect objective external reality, external objective reality is real. Existence, exists.
Everything I experience is of an objective physical world and its causality (including self-awareness, ideas, etc). The default position is that I do not need to add anything else, ie a world of make-believe where there is only mind, and a mind or minds controlling reality
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
