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> Maybe we have it backwards, and consciousness is the underlying firmament of reality and the material world emerges from that (if it even exists, of course).
by A_D_E_P_T 3y ago
> Maybe we have it backwards, and consciousness is the underlying firmament of reality and the material world emerges from that (if it even exists, of course).
This is unsupportable, even in principle, and reduces very quickly to solipsism. There's no way to account for an objective world with this (bad) philosophy.
- thriftwy 3y agoNot if you can think of some predictions from that theory that would later be proven true.
- antonvs 3y ago> reduces very quickly to solipsism Not necessarily. Solipsism generally is the idea that only one's own mind exists (or at least, it's the only mind whose existence one can supposedly be certain of.) But the gp description seems to encompass something like idealistic monism, where consciousness is fundamental, but it's not necessarily that of one person's mind. This is not equivalent to solipsism in general.
- CalRobert 3y agoI wasn't even trying to account for an objective world so much as to consider one possible explanation for the subjective experience of being. Though it is, admittedly, a bit of a cop out ("consciousness exists because it is existence"). I don't think it reduces to solipsism, though. I don't think anything I said precludes the existence of multiple minds?