So velocity is weight in your understanding? — Terrapin Station
But music is not the thing you are sensing, — Metaphysician Undercover
T-shirts are as categorically abstract as clothes, as trees are to matter when talking about abstracting properties from sense experience. We experience none as they truly are a part from mind, so their existence depends upon mind (any mind, including a mind that might transcend conventional mind, like a network of minds as mind). They aren't really anything besides what we perceive them to be, which includes the fundamentally or functionally pragmatic imposed categories of experience. — Nils Loc
You never did ‘explain your view’ because it’s self-contradictory and it can’t be explained, as it desn’t make sense. — Wayfarer
If trees are matter, then you sense matter all the time, right? (Well, assuming you often encounter trees.) — Terrapin Station
Suppose you have a book of gibberish that could be a possible language if you had an interpretive structure (a decryption key). If the key no longer exists to decode information (the language) then the information no longer exists. Information stands in relation to the decryption key in the same way as the world stands in relation to the mind. — Nils Loc
I would say that the information does still exist, it just exists in an encrypted state. — DingoJones
lol. You are really off your rocker. — Terrapin Station
he idea of the physical is, among other things, the idea of radical, brute separation of all things from one another, whereas the idea of the mental is the idea of the deep inherent interconnection of all things. — Janus
Can you please tell me what is matter?Then tell me what is a tree and then what is a mind.
If we can get these definitions accomplished we might be able to make some progress. — Jamesk
Please remember the principle of charity, it is far more likely that either Metaphysician is failing to explain the point or that you are failing to understand it than Metaphysician being insane. — Jamesk
The idea of the physical is, among other things, the idea of radical, brute separation of all things from one another, whereas the idea of the mental is the idea of the deep inherent interconnection of all things — Janus
A universal mental substance would be mind; which is the very principal of deep and universal interconnection. — Janus
The same information could have many encryption keys but the only encryption key that makes the information relevant (gives it a conditioned existence so to speak) is the one you have (ie. mind). — Nils Loc
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