An intro to my non-materialist view

[Bunburryist]

I know what I'm trying to explain. If you understood it - which you clearly don't - I wouldn't be doing it in the first place. Many of your questions reveal exactly why I'm using something different and simple. "Representation" is like one of those party poppers where you pull the string and confetti shoots all over. It has so many connotations that it's just asking to be picked over forever. "Consciousness," is another example. It has no scientifically defined meaning. It's one of those philosophical greased pigs that is ripe for filling forum after forum of argument. I don't know what consciousness "is." I know lots of people use it, and they disagree about what it even means. You'll almost never heard me use the word. "Subject" (and it's variants) is another word that isn't necessary to explain what I'm trying to explain. I would guess from your posts that you're rather intelligent people, so I don't think it would be that hard for you to accept my use of "This Experience." I assume - at least I hope - that you're actually interested in understanding what I'm trying to explain, rather than just having fun debating terms. Maybe we're here at cross purposes.