Idealism is more Rational than Materialism

[Alex K]

By needlessly postulating a separate mind, and a mind brain interaction, you violate Occam's razor in such an extreme way that you lose the entire argument.

I do not postulate a "separate mind." the mind I am referring to is our own consciousness as already proven to be real by René Descartes and that everything including the brain is derived from consciousness.

I think J.P. Sartre would disagree that Descartes proved that.

it is you that postulate unnecessarily the existence of material, a substance distinct from consciousness which is the most fundamental part of our experience. you assert material or physicality is most fundamental even though it is proven by Cartesian Skepticism that you can doubt the existence of material but you cannot doubt the existence of consciousness.

I don't think your simple application of these cartesian ideas is compatible with Occam's razor.

(Apart from the fact that with your approach you essentially end up with solipsism)

I think you are missing something very important: you think postulating the material is an unnecessary complication. This is a sleight of hand on your part, though.

Your mind, or the universal mind you propose, contains all the structures which we identify as the material world - including the human brains, which are known to contain much of the machinery necessary to produce the processes of the mind. You can even test this hypothesis by manipulating your brain with stimuli and observing the effects on your consciousness and mind.

Now, in your picture of idealism, it is wholly unnecessary to have structures in this mind world which correspond to biological machines which process memories, thoughts, sensations, looking and behaving exactly as if the mind were produced by material means.

Since these structures are obviously there and impact the mind exactly as would be expected from a mind which arises from this material brain, it violates Occam's razor to postulate that the mind is not a product of the material brain.

So, at the end of the day, all the structures which we call material, are there even in your idealistic picture, all you end up doing is relabelling "the material" as "the mind", and by shifting the baseline like that you are masking the further complications you introduce. This is an exercise devoid of actual content, a convention of language, not a philosophical distinction.