> Just a description of how things are, not an explanation. In my opinion it definitely is an explanation. There's a difference between a world where only cons

> Just a description of how things are, not an explanation. In my opinion it definitely is an explanation. There's a difference between a world where only consciousness exists, to one where the real world exists and consciousness is one aspect of it. > I don't get this, how is this remotely similar, what does God have to do with this? Saying only consciousness exists doesn't explain what consciousness is. Same as saying that God created the universe doesn't explain what created God. If it happens to be that the physical world exists and consciousness is a phenomena of the brain, as we see it today through our perceptions, then consciousness is NOT the only thing that exists, and we can start to probe what the role of it is in the bigger picture. > It's the only thing you can be sure of. The "real world" is in its essence a thought, idea, mental model. But what if it isn't? What if the real world is tightly coupled to the physics that we perceive, and that our concept of it in consciousness actually comes from physics and not from our mental model. There is definitely a chance that all our perceptions are false / an illusion of some kind, but since as you say, they are all we have, we have to presume some level of reality outside our mind and then go from there, and then if some day it's proven to be totally false we can evaluate our options then.