A Conscious Universe

[bennyboy]

There is no way to rule out "The Matrix" that I'm aware of. Similarly though, as our theistic friends will happily point out, there is no way to rule out God. It's an interesting intellectual exercise but why would you go there in the absence of evidence?

It's not necessary to "go anywhere." We have experiences, we make ideas about them. That's reality. Whatever it is that underlies our experiences, we cannot confidently say that we have access to it, though some insist we do.

That being said, I believe that since everything we experience is, at the moment of experience, an idea, the simplest explanation is that reality is idealistic.