(September 11, 2015 at 2:39 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: If there is no matter, let me chuck this encyclopedia at your head and see if you duck. If matter doesn't exist, you shouldn't be concerned with it hitting you in the face, right? Assuming you don't mind?...under monistic idealism the world we experience is a simulation. so the appearance of matter, the feeling of pain etc. are also simulated. just think of that line in the matrix 'I thought it wasn't real.' 'your mind makes it real.'
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo