Idealism is more Rational than Materialism

[Alex K]

Explain how it is not semantics?

I just did...

No you didn't.

you say material is fundamental and I say consciousness is.
if material is fundamental then the universe consists of physical processes that eventually created conscious life forms.

"the universe consists of physical processes", I dare you to tell me what this means. Saying "A is more fundamental than B" is utterly meaningless, basically a restating of the premise in different words, unless you tell me what it means.

there would be no God or afterlife.

I think you have a very narrow notion of what a physical process can do. It could be that a physical force uploads our minds into something that is preserved after we die. It's just not very likely, there is no evidence for it.

if consciousness is fundamental, then the universe was created by consciousness, the apparent physical world only exists when we're observing it, God would exist as a super conscious, there would be no reason to think the termination of our brains is the termination of our minds.

It is difficult to properly define consciousness, but I'm going to use something like self-awareness, the fact that we can think about our state of mind. It's the thing you lose when you are in a deep coma, or even just asleep. And that's precisely where your picture falls apart completely. I would think it too trivial a point to make it, if people didn't so blatantly ignore it. You lose consciousness if you interrupt brain function. It is not fundamental. If you want to make it fundamental you have to fudge so much that you make Occam violate the conservation of angular momentum.

you think there are no immortal God's, there are no immortal souls. all that exist are atoms and the void.

I think it's unlikely, so I come down on the side of no.
But "all that exists is atoms and the void" is a very simplistic picture.

I think there are no atoms, there is no void. all that exists are immortal souls and God.

You go on and on about how rigid your reasoning is, Occam's razor, want to send me to philosophy 101, and then you want to sell me immortal souls and God, as if you had any good reason to think that any of that exists.