RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
September 17, 2015 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"If everything we think we know is false, then some other thing might be true"
You realize that you don't -actually- have to appeal to solipsism in order to make the statement "everything is mind", right? You can make that statement from the position of reductive physicalism just as easily. You can argue for "the sim" from that position as well, and much, much more competently, I'd wager. Particularly in that there's no need to beg from the ledge of possibilities accepted for sake of argument. You can simply provide demonstrations and schematics. "Sims" - as you know them, as you experience them -are- physical things. Little pieces of machinery-in-state.
Or, you know...you could go with "hey guys.....what if".........your call.
(your conclusions don't follow..and some of the statements are "wtf" level wrong, btw. Prove for me, right now, that substance dualism is false.....as you so casually claimed had already been proven.)
You realize that you don't -actually- have to appeal to solipsism in order to make the statement "everything is mind", right? You can make that statement from the position of reductive physicalism just as easily. You can argue for "the sim" from that position as well, and much, much more competently, I'd wager. Particularly in that there's no need to beg from the ledge of possibilities accepted for sake of argument. You can simply provide demonstrations and schematics. "Sims" - as you know them, as you experience them -are- physical things. Little pieces of machinery-in-state.
Or, you know...you could go with "hey guys.....what if".........your call.
(your conclusions don't follow..and some of the statements are "wtf" level wrong, btw. Prove for me, right now, that substance dualism is false.....as you so casually claimed had already been proven.)
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