A Conscious Universe

[Mudhammam]

I don't take the position Nietzsche is talking about, if I indeed understand it. It is not my position that reality is an expression of the HUMAN mind / minds, which to me would be a kind of collective solipsism (if I may abuse the roots of that word here). It is my position that everything is an expression of the interaction of underlying ideas: i.e. that everything reduces down to something expressible only as idea-- not because of human limitations in observation, but due to ambiguities intrinsic to the marriage of observed reality and any model which includes a geographic 3D space as a component.

I might define your version as 'soft idealism,' and though I don't find it particularly disagreeable, I do think it makes very little difference if we talk about physical realities that can only be conceived in abstract terms due to human limitations or 'ideas' (principles of nature?) that serve as the underlying context by and through which 'physical' phenomena occur. I might simply caution that we distinguish between the reality we begin cutting and the nothingness we find when its been exhaustively divided, and maintain a clear line between theoretical construct and observation.

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How do you feel this would establish that the universe resolves down to physical reality, about which ideas are merely a description, rather than ideas, of which matter is merely an expression?

Because the ideas are confined to --- and totally depend on --- the health of the brain in which they occur?