RE: Idealism is more Rational than Materialism
February 2, 2015 at 4:57 am
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2015 at 4:58 am by Alex K.)
(February 2, 2015 at 4:51 am)Rational AKD Wrote:(February 2, 2015 at 4:12 am)Alex K Wrote: 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.if these materials are actually mental projections, it makes perfect sense given our experience that these mental projections impact our mental states. in idealism, all that is material is actually mental. it makes sense that mental structures affect mind. with this consistency it seems unnecessary to postulate physical substances that we do not observe and in fact are impossible to observe since we cannot observe what is outside our conscious states.
As I said, you have simply renamed "the material" to "the mental". As soon as you do anything beyond this, you are disregarding occam's razor.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
