(February 9, 2015 at 7:26 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Stop saying there's no difference between physical and mental in idealism. Nobody's saying that, unless you are. Are you?Differences -that make a difference-. I'll say it, if no one else wants to. It does seem as though there is very little difference between your idealism and my materialism. So much so that if, for example, your idealism were true then the description of mind, consciousness, qualia (everything, really) that I'm offering via computation by physical objects still holds as a proof of concept for how information machines do information to information.
Methodologically identical, though we still have the nagging solidity of kicked stones to explain away.
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