RE: Contra Metaphysical Idealism
April 16, 2014 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2014 at 3:57 pm by archangle.)
(April 14, 2014 at 6:44 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(April 14, 2014 at 2:14 pm)archangle Wrote: I see your claim as the universe only exist because we "process it". does that sum it up?No. What you just said has absolutely zero to do with anything I've ever said. In fact, I've contradicted this idea, which is an extension of solipsism, at least twice.
My claim is that the universe itself is not a collection of things, but of the interrelationships between properties that don't supervene on anything-- i.e. they are just ideas or concepts, and there are no "things" that cause them. But they are not ideas or concepts of people-- they are self-existent ideas or concepts.
Cool .. let me try again.
There are no things, just events. And yes, some of these events can be "idea's", or better stated as "data".
We are a data set within a data set. actaully a "processor within a processor".
If that's what you mean, I total'y agree with ya. There is no nouns, only verbs. There is far more proof of this than "we" are the top awareness. We are not the only "data processing" going on.

