(February 2, 2015 at 8:17 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(February 2, 2015 at 2:41 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Wait, there are two types of ideas, elemental and not elemental? Does your mind work on elemental ideas or non-elemental ideas? How is this not dualism?Do you not hold that both the brain and the QM particles of which it is made are both "things"? Would you claim that your brain is dualistic because it is made up of "both" QM particles and brain tissue?
I have no idea what lead you to intepret my statement the way you did. Yes, the brain is made out of QM particles, both are things. In idealism, are there elemental ideas ad non-elemental ideas? Are the non-elemental ideas composed out of elemental ideas? If not, you have dualism. If so, you still have the problem of why the mind's ideas aren't manifested in reality.
