RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
September 11, 2015 at 3:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm by Rational AKD.)
(September 11, 2015 at 3:45 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: So...what, are you saying that we're all figments of your imagination? Are you saying that we're all just part of the same mind and that we're collectively imagining reality? What is your model for why we experience consensual, physical reality? What do you think is happening there?
my model is monistic idealism, so the answer to your first question is no. your second question, close. my model is that there is one mind that is simulating all of reality. but this mind has created (from thoughts) other minds (us). he has also created the world we experience as a simulation. it exists as part of our experience but has no existence apart from that. think of it like a video game like skyrim. your character is on a huge map, but the environment is loaded as you change your position and view point. it has a consistent layout, but only manifests itself on your screen when it's in your viewing perspective. this is how the world would also work.
as for this greater mind, since nothing exists apart from him and his thoughts, he would have all knowledge and full control over everything. in other words, he would be omniscient and omnipotent. this greater mind could thus adequately be called God. we are all mental constructs of God's mind experiencing a reality simulated also by God's mind.
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
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