Ian Thompson
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It is not idealism, because I say that the physical produced is actually material, not merely the idea or perception or concept of the material. There actually are weighty objects in physical space, just as materialists think!This is Idealism, and I agree it is probably the ultimate explanation of reality. However, I am not sure it is viable to jump there in one go - that would be as if Newton had come up with General Relativity! It would have been atrociously hard for people to use to explain the solar system, because they might not even realise that the theory reduces to the inverse square law in the right conditions. I get the feeling that science has to progress in manageable steps, and I think dualism (with some unspecified interaction between the two realms) is a good temporary view of reality. Subsequently, there is nothing to prevent a move to a theory where the material realm is also generated by the mental realm - and the interaction then becomes obvious.
Bernardo argues for Idealism, but IMHO that makes his arguments rather vague and full of metaphors.
David
It is just the production of these from the mental and spiritual is conditioned on previous states of the material, so we do not have a 'free for all', or 'you make your own reality'. Rather, all the production of the physical is in to the shared physical space of 3 dimensions + time.
I do not think Bernardo would accept such a reality as this physical.
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