(February 4, 2015 at 10:18 am)Alex K Wrote: See what I said above. It's not the most parsimonious since this mind world of idealism has to have all the properties and content of the material world. It's at best equally parsimonious, in which case it is simply a renaming.well, that we observe... but this is what dual aspect idealism is. matter behaves materialistically but is still derived from consciousness. the difference between this view and materialism is this view postulates a mind capable of simulating material, while materialism postulates a material substance and a mind capable of simulating material. take away the material substance and you have idealism. so why do you need to postulate a material substance again?
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