Idealism is more Rational than Materialism

[Rational AKD]

these back and forths are getting tedious and so I am going to address core misunderstandings here instead of every tedious point.

I've described my "mental states" as being, literally and reductively - the machine. Not a product of the machine...not a generation or a projection, not some "other" - no homonculous....-the machine-. Is this what you take issue with?

yes I take issue with this. namely that there are obvious signs that consciousness is not equivocal to "the machine" which I will assume you are referring to the brain. namely that even materialists acknowledge not all brains are conscious, only functioning brains are. for example the brain of a dead person cannot be said to have consciousness even though it has all the same material contents as a functioning brain. so according to Leibniz Law of indiscernibility of identicals, if we have a scenario where brain B is different from mind M; then these two are not identical. the state of B where B is not functioning causes an absence of M within B... therefore they are not equivocal. you can only conclude that M is a function or process of B or M is a separate entity than B.

as I have removed an assumption of a projection, and also the assumption of something to project -to-, so I;m not sure I understand what you're driving at?

unfortunately for you, you have not done so coherently as we see scenarios where B is without M.

To explain my further issue (with your constant retreat to solipsism), and maybe I'm misunderstanding you, you seem to think that there is no reason to assume anything beyond our individual "consciousness"

no... I think there is no reason to assume anything behind "consciousness" in general. I think solipsism has some problems of its own, mainly the problem of self conscious control. if your mind is all there is, then there should be no reason you don't have full control over it as nothing else exists to have that control. no one has such control over the reality we experience, meaning it must not be our personal mental construct. but that doesn't mean it's not mentally constructed. I stated quite clearly in the OP my idealistic view and I've stated many times I do not advocate solipsism.

okay....but when -you- die....will -I- cease to exist?

as I said in the OP, idealism provides the possibility if not probability of an afterlife. if the world is a mental construct, there is no reason why it necessarily terminates your mind. you mind is only terminated when the for it is terminated or reversed. in your materialist view, this would be the termination of the brain. in my idealist view, it is contingent upon the super conscious, since this is where your consciousness emerges from.

I think we're both accepting the existence of some external "something"......it's just that one of us is okay with owning up to that.

and you would be correct. however, what I accept as external (multi consciousness including a super conscious) is due to logical consistency and what you accept as external is purely assumption which can be shaved by Occam's Razor to arrive back at idealism. other questions you have are based on your confusions of what I have just answered so I'll leave those out.

Consciousness and mind are the outputs of a working higher order brain.

way to state your dogma as if it were common ground between us... it is not.

There is no need to invoke any of the woo you have tried to foist on it.

there is no reason to invoke foreign concepts of material when we only perceives the mental construct which is at most modeled after material but obviously has interpretation added to it IE qualia. what reason is there to believe material exists as a concept foreign to what we perceive? why not believe our perception of material reality is all there is to it?