Just to be clear, what you are talking about is different to what Chalmers and others are talking about. The "idealistic" monism assumes that matter doesn't act

Just to be clear, what you are talking about is different to what Chalmers and others are talking about. The "idealistic" monism assumes that matter doesn't actually exists, while "neutral" monism assumes that matter and consciousness have similar ontological status as they are irreducible properties of the 'real stuff' [0]. BTW it may be appealing to the HN crowd that Bertrand Russell, the uber geek, subscribed to neutral monism as well. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_monism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_monism