(January 31, 2015 at 1:33 am)bennyboy Wrote:(January 31, 2015 at 12:40 am)Surgenator Wrote: @RhythmIf you're asking about the drying paint, I did answer it.
I pose an interesting question only to come back to 3 pages worth of discussion between you and benny. You're stealing my fun.
But I'll answer it again (maybe inaccurately as I'm not an expert in drying paint): the heat from the sun or another source excites the water molecules, causing them to break free of the paint and be absorbed into the air. The other molecules in the paint remain behind on the wall, leaving a solid shell.
See, the thing you guys don't seem to be connecting with is that there's nothing described in a physical monism which isn't describable in an idealistic monism, usually in almost the same terms. It is at philosophical boundaries that answers become very different: cosmogony and psychogony, for example, or in looking for the most primitive elements upon which everything we observe supervene.
You're using physical monism for the description and only assert that it is describable in idealistic terms. Your assertation isn't justified.
