On naturalism and consciousness

[bennyboy]

But what if experience isn't what we think it is? What does that say about everything else?

I'm going to agree with ShaMan on this one. Your trying to look for something that probably doesn't exist, and there is no way to know.

Huh? Using only experience, you've adopted a philosphical model in which we do not explain things in experiential terms, but rather in terms of an inferred objective reality. But here's a hint: Occam's Razor was not meant as an additive tool; you can disagree with me, but you cannot sensibly disagree by arguing that the web of assumptions and inferences that we call physical monism is the simplest possible expression of the truth.

The simplest model of experience is (and should obviously be) that reality is intrinsically experiential, i.e. that an idealistic monism is true.