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Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
(September 11, 2015 at 3:17 pm)Rational AKD Wrote:
(September 11, 2015 at 3:09 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: But how do you die if the matter causing you to die does not exist?  How can something that does not exist cause your mind to cease existing?  Or since it is your mind making it real, would this be mental suicide?  In the Matrix, there still existed the physical world, just that they were acting in an alternate reality as a byproduct of their mind.  Outside the Matrix they were very material. 
ok, i'll grant you that. dying in an idealist world would be more comparable to dying in a video game. your physical body (or at least the simulated parts of it) dies but your mind is still in tact. this also provides a reasonable explanation how we can have an afterlife.
So if mind (your mind or a gods mind etc) has been and will be here for eternity (because it is immaterial whatever that means). How has it transcended an infinite series of mental events to be present today or an eternity into the future? It is impossible.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
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RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by Captain Scarlet - September 17, 2015 at 5:47 pm
RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by Cato - September 18, 2015 at 12:16 am

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