Wow, I actually made it through the thread.
I want to thank everybody who has participated in this. When I started the thread about downloading consciousness to a computer (which spawned these two idealism threads) I had never heard of idealism, solipsism or monism. I needed to do a lot of reading before I could follow this. It was very interesting so again, thank you, everybody.
Rational AKD, I have a few questions:
Where do animals fit into this? Are they also individual minds under the super-consciousnesses?
If the whole point of a brain is to localize the consciousness in space, why the existence of simple brains like that found in a worm? It has the same components of a big brain like ours but it lacks the complexity to localize any mind. Its just too simple. I understand that under idealism, the worm and everything else is just a projection but why project such a thing?
Brains are unmistakably the product of evolution. The human brain has been described as a "kludge", basically a tangle of complex machinery layered on top of much simpler machinery. It makes sense assuming an evolved brain but none at all for a brain designed from scratch. Why would such a brain be projected?
I want to thank everybody who has participated in this. When I started the thread about downloading consciousness to a computer (which spawned these two idealism threads) I had never heard of idealism, solipsism or monism. I needed to do a lot of reading before I could follow this. It was very interesting so again, thank you, everybody.
Rational AKD, I have a few questions:
Where do animals fit into this? Are they also individual minds under the super-consciousnesses?
If the whole point of a brain is to localize the consciousness in space, why the existence of simple brains like that found in a worm? It has the same components of a big brain like ours but it lacks the complexity to localize any mind. Its just too simple. I understand that under idealism, the worm and everything else is just a projection but why project such a thing?
Brains are unmistakably the product of evolution. The human brain has been described as a "kludge", basically a tangle of complex machinery layered on top of much simpler machinery. It makes sense assuming an evolved brain but none at all for a brain designed from scratch. Why would such a brain be projected?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
