Idealism is more Rational than Materialism

[Chas]

We've read it. It's just such a heap of entirely unjustified assumptions, which you seem to make out of prejudice, but which you try to convince us are logically necessary. Distinct yet similar minds, part of a greater consciousness. Once you're at that level of complication, it's more parsimonious to adopt materialism.

so it's more parsimonious to postulate a substance we do not perceive that is behind the substances we do perceive? such a view is unverifiable. we only experience mental perceptions. why suggest a new substance that we don't experience to explain this experience? if mental substances are all that exist, then reality is something we perceive. materialism assumes a substance that is not how we perceive, full of color and other qualia, suggesting our perceptions can't help us know what reality is.

What substance? Do you not understand that mental processes are not a substance, they are the structured interaction of known matter and energy?

You are trying to make a process a thing. Processes exist as change.