Originally posted by Volt
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As for the claims of Materialism. Remember the apple example? We perceive it as red, a certain size, weight, feel, smell, etc. Strip all those things away, all the sensations that we call an "apple," and tell me what's left. Try to describe it. That's our independent, external reality.
Correct, assuming you're referring to ultimate causation, i.e. the "first mover," so to speak. However, simply because this all-encompassing mind is the original creator of the thoughts and sensations that we share doesn't mean that it retains absolute control over them.
Our observation doesn't in and of itself cause shared reality to spring into existence, no. Our minds apparently aren't that robust.
Observation only apparently causes it. That's the data, anything more is interpretation.
As for the mind not actively causing anything: consider any kind of physical interaction. One object bumps into another; it effects it by energy transfer. Same sort of thing from an Idealistic premise. The mind coming into direct contact with sensations and alters them in some way.
Partly, yes. I never said that Idealism advocated absolute free will, much less complete causality via the human mind!
Yes. Your point?
I eagerly await criticism. No, seriously.
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