It is indivisible because elementary particles are indivisible.
- It is a monistic theory. — SolarWind
The only thing we have access to is qualitative sensory data. That's all. — Dharmi
Subjective idealism, or empirical idealism, is the monistic metaphysical doctrine that only minds and mental contents exist. It entails and is generally identified or associated with immaterialism, the doctrine that material things do not exist. Subjective idealism rejects dualism, neutral monism, and materialism; indeed, it is the contrary of eliminative materialism, the doctrine that all or some classes of mental phenomena (such as emotions, beliefs, or desires) do not exist, but are sheer illusions.
I'm not saying it's in *your* imagination. It's in God's Mind. The Infinite All-Pervading Unoriginate Consciousness. It's partially in your mind, because your mind forms certain qualia of reality, sure, but it's in God's Mind. — Dharmi
True. Yet all the flavors of 'immateriality' are even more unsavory, more ad hoc or preposterous, and demonstrably more maladaptive for surviving & thriving as a natural species than materiality.I am an Idealist. Materiality has never been proven or demonstrated, just claimed. — Dharmi
It must be that masochistic slaves desire a master sadist that "loves" them (i.e. BDSM "of the spirit") ... à la junk equation-as-recipe-for-"ambrosia". :smirk:Why do so many people need an almighty boss? — SolarWind
I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, "Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass" "Why?" "Because, they are all the same electron!"
True. Yet all the flavors of 'immateriality' are even more unsavory, more ad hoc or preposterous, and demonstrably more maladaptive for surviving & thriving as a natural species than materiality. — 180 Proof
:death: :flower:All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. — Benedictus de Spinoza
:lol:1) Matter arises from consciousness. — Dharmi
Au contrair, O Simplicius! :point:Consciousness-only ontology is the most parsimonious, and least ad hoc and preposterous. — Dharmi
:fire:Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. — Albert Einstein
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