Idealism is more Rational than Materialism

[Mudhammam]

changes in brain state affect personal mental state... changes in natural habitat don't. see the difference?
and of course the fundamental 'immaterial mind' won't be found in space.

So, in other words, you're contradicting yourself from when you previously said mind is "fundamentally tied" to the brain. Gee, I wonder why your "logic" is hard to follow??? Is it because you keep changing it? Or, when you speak of "the mind of God," you mean nothing like mind in the sense anyone can conceive or experience. That might be my first reason why your proposal is so unpersuasive. It's also not falsifiable. So there's that.

except if matter is derived from information, something had to act in order for matter, energy, and space-time to emerge. information can't act on its own... unless it's conscious.

Once again, all your examples are material.

why do you prefer materialism over other metaphysical beliefs of reality?

It's the most practical, requiring the least amount of assumptions (whereas yours are quite extravagant) and best coincides with the KNOWN data.

except they aren't necessarily associated with material objects or processes. they can be thought of in abstract terms. you don't need to conceive of 5 objects to conceive the number 5. the number 5 can be thought of without the need to associate it with anything else.

So can the word "idiotic." We can think of any description separate from its application to the objects they're derived from. So what? For any word to actually mean anything---apart from being a purely logical structure made internally consistent, such as a statement---it must correlate to something in the world of experience... which matter does, "fundamental 'immaterial mind'" does not.

no, i'm actually describing panentheism. pantheism means 'all is God' and panentheism means 'all in God' or 'all dependent on God.' I don't think the universe, or our minds, are the same as God's essence. rather they are derived from his thoughts and sustained by them.

Did you or did you not say there is one substance, "mind"? Did you not say that is everything? Well, then God and world are one substance, yes?

by now i'm sure you know my reasons for rejecting solipsism.

Here comes the back peddling required by your argument.

the methodology can only tell you how natural processes work... they can't be used for metaphysics. materialism is a metaphysical claim, and science can't confirm it.

Science can and should inform it.

I never thought my position having answers was contingent on materialist's lack of answers. idealism has no problem explaining consciousness with respect to the world we experience regardless.

LOL. You would think by now you might have done so then. But you haven't. Because idealism makes everything inherently mysterious and out of reach. It solves nothing, whereas materialism can make sense of the data and allows us to pose specific hypotheses in our still very early understanding of the physical brain. Let me ask you, so, are you aware of any consciousness that exists separate from personality? Does that lead your "inquiry" to the suspicion that "cosmic mind" is a person?