Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist

[bennyboy]

Do you think it's possible for anyone to produce what would be required to convince you - under these restrictions?  If I handed you a rock to establish that rocks were a thing - could you not simply reply that whatever the rock may be...it is an idea to you, in your experience...as you experience it?  Obviously, you would reply in such a manner if I were to offer an explanation of a rock down to it's very fundament as we currently see it.  Is there something between handing you a rock and a quantum explanations of rocks, or have you blocked all routes, as it were - with such a response?

I think the idea of evidence in the context of brute fact is nonsensical, basically by definition. Since we are trying to figure out what is "under the hood," then there are two possibilities: that whatever we say is under the hood is just the next layer down and there are more layers, which means we can never know, ultimately, upon what elements the universe supervenes; or whatever we say is under the hood is really the end of the line, in which case we will be agnostic of this fact since there's no way to know what you don't know.

That being said, since all the evidence you can provide is experiential in nature, then only by a conscious choice of assumptions could I arrive at the conclusion that the world is as you describe it.