Quote: Conversely, I think the part about light not being light (yadda yadda yadda) is one of the single derpiest things I've ever seen.Why exactly?
Quote: It asserts the immaterial in order to..wait for it..conclude the immaterial.It doesn't start with immaterialism. It starts with the philosophically naive position of dualism (that both immaterial and material things exist) and finds a contradiction in it that can be resolved by assuming idealism (immaterialism). You think that materialism is right? I don't know, I find materialism hard to even conceive. The evidence of our ideas (or at least some of them, like the perceptions) being caused by the states of the neurons in the brain is overwhelming. But the idea that the ideas themselves are something material in our brain. . . how is that even conceivable?
