What's the point of philosophy any more?

[bennyboy]

But you have never once given any evidence that there is anything more to the mind than the workings of the brain. All the evidence we have from neurodegenerative diseases, brain lesions and neuroscience suggest there is indeed nothing more.

Give me evidence that reality isn't idealistic, or that we're not in the Mind of God or the Matrix. Give me evidence that you're not a figment of my imagination.

You're using the vocabulary of a world view that's already decided. You've made your philosophical choice, and now all the semantics of that choice point back to it. But circles aren't really conclusions.

I'd say this: show me a single bit of evidence that you have that has not been processed through the agency of subjective experience. There's no such thing. The physical world is, so far as you are concerned, an idea which you've experienced. The brain, so far as you are concerned, is a collection of images and sense impressions. Your teacher who taught you-- is that person really existent in the sense that you treat him?

We believe that the truth of the Universe is that it is made up of suirrely little buggers aka quantum particles, which have no definite shape, location, or even position in time. That's 100% of the Universe as we currently understand it: all nothing more than wave functions which cannot be represented unambiguously in either space or time. Are you so sure that your world view of stuff and properties of stuff is really better than a world view in which everything, including "stuff," is a collection of ideas and experiences, and nothing more?