(September 18, 2015 at 4:03 am)Losty Wrote: And you can't die from being bludgeoned by a baseball bat in a hallucination or a dream either...right... because 'your' hallucinations have no effect on your body. but your real life body is made of the same stuff as the rest of the world in your experience. so whether this 'material' in our experience is an actual material substance or just a mental construct, your body is still made of the same substance you find in the objects of your experience. so they can all affect your body on that same level.
Losty Wrote:I've never even heard of anyone who believes this before. Do you have a church?Monistic Idealism is an epistemological belief, not a religious one thus there is no 'church' for it. just look up monistic idealism and you'll see it is an actual belief many people believe.
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
-Galileo
