(January 29, 2015 at 6:53 am)Alex K Wrote:Yes. It's a reality which is reducible to ideas which cannot be expressed unambiguously as things.(January 29, 2015 at 6:50 am)bennyboy Wrote: By what criteria do you differentiate from this view, which is supposed to be descriptive of physical reality, from an idealistic reality, in which these things we cannot see are considered only universal (forgive the apparent equivocation) expressions of ideas?
Can you elaborate more on what you mean by idealistic reality?
As the OP mentions, the dual nature of a photon is hard to comprehend in terms of a physical monism. However, in an ideal monism, ambiguity is fine-- so long as the DEFINITION is not ambiguous. "Light is both a particle and a wave" renders light unrenderable in any understandable physical framework, but it's no problem as an idea.
The same goes for the other elephant in the room: mind. It's not sensibly expressed in physical terms, although you can wave at the brain and insist it's in there somewhere; there's not even a really plausible mechanism for subjective awareness right now. However, the physical universe as an idea works fine, since that's how we experience it anyway.
