Idealism is more Rational than Materialism

[Mudhammam]

why does that have to be it? it seems you just make this blatant statement without feeling the need to justify it.

True, I don't feel the need to justify it, since the definition of consciousness is the possession of experience.

the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.

the awareness or perception of something by a person.

the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.

Perhaps when you offer one example of consciousness that does not involve material entities with the capacity to experience their environment I will be compelled to qualify my statement further.

well, not particularly man. just any conscious beings. and why doesn't it make sense? in a video game the player is the center of that world and everything else is contributing to the payable character's experience. if humans can create this kind of simulative world, why can't we be in one? because we're the center of the universe and there are no beings smarter than us? *irony*

I never said we couldn't be. You just haven't provided any logical or evidential basis for the assertion that we are in a computer simulation or a dog's dream, and in any case, since we would never know unless the developer of our virtual simulation communicated it to us, it really makes no difference.

I don't come to this conclusion lacking evidence, I have stated my evidence several times... if solipsism is true, then I should be in full control of my thoughts, and since everything is comprised of my thoughts I should be in control of everything. but I do not experience this control, therefore there must be something outside myself that does. the simplest explanation would be another mind. this is because I am already familiar with the concept of mind, while i'm not familiar with the concept of non-mind since I can only think in terms of mind. this would make non-mind material non-parsimonious and unverifiable.

Your "evidence," as others have pointed out, is nothing but the logical arguments for solipsism with an unverifiable ad hoc add-on, that is in principle the most non-parsimonious, to avoid its conclusions. I'm also not aware of any minds that exist independent of material brains. So where's the Super Duper Material Brain that experience would demand you provide evidence for? I am aware of material objects that possess no characteristics of mind, however, and that have existed before any known conscious beings did. In fact, at one time, I was one such object. So were you. I am therefore justified to conclude that material objects lacking the property of mind are more fundamental and that brains and minds are a result of material productions.