On naturalism and consciousness

[Surgenator]

How do you explain a third party? How would you explain consistency of 'experiences' and their repeatability between third parties?

Because the individual parties are subsets of a greater whole. When I say the universe is idealistic, I'm not claiming that I made it with my mind, or that only what I personally can experience is able to exist. That's solipsism.

So you and I are figments of some larger mind. I find this even harder to swallow. These mind subsets still do not explain consistency and repeatability between the subsets.

My world view can explain these 'experiences' by a very simple model that there are more than one mind existing in a physical universe.

That's not a very good explanation. Not only does it not provide any description of how minds come to exist, it doesn't even give specific criteria for identifying what physical structures do, and what don't, have minds.

I don't know how a mind works; I'm not a neuroscientist. More importantly, I don't need to explain how a mind works to understand that there is more than one.

No, I don't need to explain the physical mechanism of the mind to understand that we are two minds in a physical reality.

You just went on record saying that you've used Occam's razor to arrive at a physical monism because it most simply "explains ALL of the observable 'experiences.'" Okay, go ahead: explain them. Or, alternately, demonstrate how you can use your subjective experiences to arrive at a surety that there's an objective physical universe "out there," as opposed to you being in the Matrix, or the Mind of God, or a BIJ.
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I arrive at physical monism because it is the best model to explain all the observations I have experience. Like talking with other people, learning new things, distinquishing reality from dreaming, the consistency of observations and their repeatability. These are the things that convinced me that physical monism is the best possible answer.

As far as a possible physical explanation of a mind arrising from physical mechanisms, read up on neural networks. It's a general algorithm that can learn and make predictions. It's used to buy and sell stock in the stock market. Also, it's based off how the neurons in our brains work.