He is right. People who posit mind independent matter are just genuinely bullshitting. Like Locke, all they can really say is "something is there, I can't quite articulate it but it's all quite glorious." Might as well posit an eternal spirit.
>kicks stone
>>25264834Not an argument, Johnson.
People who can't distinguish their imagination from material reality are either very small children, or have a significant dysfunction in their brain that can generally be corrected with medication
>>25264815Someone else posted this as a rec awhile back on an occult thread but, you may want to check this out OPhttps://archive.org/details/jp-tg-ul-oneirosophy
>>25264815Is there a chart that someone can make that compares Western and Eastern thought that includes Berkeley? I know he would be Yogacara.
>>25264868Hey bud, you're glowing so hard that i think your bones may desintegrate if you keep it up. Tone it down a little bit.
>>25264868Are these meds in the room with us right now, Johnson?
>>25264875>the feds don't want you to know that everything wrong with the world is just your imagination and you should focus on washing your penis
>>25264815I just read Kant's refutation of idealism earlier today (mainly directed at Cartesian 'problematic idealism' rather than Berkeleian 'dogmatic idealism' but he dismisses the latter as well) and found it quite disappointing which seems to be the common response, this paper tries to present a stronger version of it though it admits there are still serious weaknesses:https://philarchive.org/archive/MARKNR
>>25264868And yet even normal, adult brains can't tell the difference between imagination and material reality in cases like arousal from having saucy thoughts or shedding tears from recalling traumatic events.
>>25265097They absolutely can. Being emotionally affected by memories or a book doesn't mean you think it's reality.
>>25265097>>25265102There's a quite famous philosophy article on this phenomenon and all the unsatisfying answers people have come up with to explain it, How Can We Be Moved By the Fate of Anna Karenina? (1975)
>>25265143It's because we experience and see or hear about so much tragedy and misery in the real world that have to be indifferent to it, we have to cut our hearts out to be the machines the system needs. But we are still humans and we have these emotions for a reason, and we become crazy if we never feel them, as Aristotle saw in theory of catharsis, so we turn to things outside of our real world because grief over those is safe in the system as it is much less likely to lead to political outburst or civil disobedience or organization. And as for feeling happiness about fictional characters, it is our outlet for the need for real happiness since happiness in the real world is mostly gaslighting ourselves or putting on a mask to placate the system. Genuine happiness and grief do happen in the real world but not nearly enough for our needs
>>25265097"you" are not your brain, and "you" are especially not any individual subsystem of your brain
most people don’t even realize an object is an idea
zoomie pseud levels are off the charts itt
