(September 18, 2016 at 4:30 am)bennyboy Wrote:(September 18, 2016 at 12:12 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: You're full of shit. Consciousness, isn't. You claim that consciousness is. That's a claim that requires more support than a stupid semantic argument or saying that it's self-evident. You've never been shy that you believe in Idealism. What is that Idealism world composed of if consciousness isn't a real thing? And here you are trying to deny the ontology your well-known Idealism requires. If consciousness isn't what it appears to be, then your "world of ideas" is an empty non-space. You're simply being dishonest in pretending agnosticism here.First of all, I don't "believe in" idealism. I'm agnostic about the nature of reality, but I consider a kind of experiential idealism a better default position than a material monism. This is because there's a 100% chance that all knowledge is known only by a subjective agent, and an unknown chance that all subjective agency is dependent on a material substrate. 100% > not sure, any day of the week.
More word games. Your odds don't make any sense. Both "all knowledge is known only by a subjective agent" and "subjective agency is dependent on a material substrate" may both be true at the same time. And "all knowledge is known only by a subjective agent" doesn't lead to Idealism. You're just spinning BS to CYA. The chance that "all knowledge is known only by a subjective agent" implies an Idealism is also unknown.