RE: Physical idealism
May 15, 2016 at 11:03 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 11:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not concerned with the term physical. When you describe these things you call "ideas" they've been both
a:horribly incorrect by reference to everything we know of evolution, for example.
and
b: completely indistinguishable from the things we already call material interactions.
As such, I don't know why you would call it idealism, at all, even if the notions expressed were accurate. I'd just call it physical materialism. That'd be a bit redundant, though..so...just materialism. Am I not making myself clear? I just think you're trying to shoehorn idealism into something...somewhere. That's all. If there -are- deeply interesting differences between idealism and materialism..they are nowhere to be found in your description of idealism.
a:horribly incorrect by reference to everything we know of evolution, for example.
and
b: completely indistinguishable from the things we already call material interactions.
As such, I don't know why you would call it idealism, at all, even if the notions expressed were accurate. I'd just call it physical materialism. That'd be a bit redundant, though..so...just materialism. Am I not making myself clear? I just think you're trying to shoehorn idealism into something...somewhere. That's all. If there -are- deeply interesting differences between idealism and materialism..they are nowhere to be found in your description of idealism.
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