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It isn't in the slightest bit dualist. Everything in this theory is thought process, the chair you're sat on , the sense of self that you have, mathematical laws...everything is thought process.

You still have not explained how you know that these ideas, that you are so convinced by, are not just correlation. The easiest way that I have of putting this (and I have said it before) is that if you play a computer game and you crash a simulated car into a simulated tree then it looks as...

Well of course things would be different if the basis of reality is thought. The simplest way to look at this idea is to see the world as a programme (like Windows) and our minds like sub-programmes (like Explorer). Obviously the only difference is that there wouldn't be any material...

I'll ask again, is your theory falsifiable, ie, can you explain how I could potentially prove that the foundation of this existence is not mind independent? As I have pointed out, if you can not point to how your theory is falsifiable then it is only by faith that it exists, not proof. It seems...

Just explain how the fuck you know that this is not a dream type event. It seems certain to me that anyone who applies logic to philosophy can not deny the possibility that all is mind product. Keep it simple mate, I'm not as bright as you and don't always follow what the hell you're getting at.:)

If the world is totally mind dependent then this world is made from information. Information in such a situation is necessarily produced by another mind. What separates this reality from dreams is that this reality has rules governing it that stem from the will of the mind that encapsulates the...

Don't forget folks that it is a simpler explanation of reality to state that this is a dream type event, that there is no such thing as a mindless basis for reality.

The brain containing the I is not the same as the brain being the I, so yeah you're right. For instance, the brain could be a conduit through which the I acts, so that when part of the brain is damaged that part of the I no longer exists within this world.

The fact that my mind appears to be dependent upon my brain is not proof of causation, sure there is correlation, but as we know it is not proof...for instance you could be dreaming that brains cause thoughts...that kind of shit. Materialists seem to over-step the mark of what they can actually...

You claim that there is an underlying mindless process controlling our minds, is this theory of yours actually falsifiable or do you admit that it's just a theory that you have faith in, ie, conjecture ?

I think you have just dreamt that up because it's complete conjecture. Are you claiming that you know the boundary of everything?

I agree with this post too. Free will involves an emotional (valued) choice. We all react in day to day events (like driving a car) in an automatic way, but it involves free will to deliberately drive it off a cliff.

I've got to say that I think that is a very insightful reply, thanks.:)

If you believe you have the freedom to choose between available options based on your preferences, and if you believe you have the power to change your preferences (even ingrained prejudices if better knowledge comes your way), then you have free will, or you had just as well act as though it...

See, you are just demonstrating your feminine bitchiness again. I think that it is clear that I am the person who is using philosophy here. I am not pretending to know that anything exists beyond that which I know to exist, ie, thought. The rest of you do not seem able to accept that your...

As already explained, free will is not about being able to choose your preferences, it's about being willing to control your preferences with knowledge. So an alcoholic may well want another drink, but he is able to control his urge through knowledge of what it is doing to his liver. If his...

Lol, it's funny how little weasels come out with that kind of comment on message boards, when face to face they would not dream of saying it. You are no philosopher and I guarantee you also have no balls...crawl back under your rock and carry on contributing nothing young lady. Still , none of...

Science gathers information...but it has no evidence that that information is mindlessly created. Why do you think that science has to make the unsupported assertion that the information reaching our minds must be mindlessly created? Why can't you just accept information as raw fact, why do you...

I have no problem in accepting that the world existed before me, as I have said, I am no solipsist. But your bias leads you to believe that because the universe existed before your mind that it must be the case that the universe is not mind dependent. As I have already stated , it is clear...

To claim the world (outside of our minds ) is mind independent is obviously an assumption, an assumption based on the idea that because we don't control the world the world must mindlessly control itself. It is a simpler concept that the outer world is constructed from the same stuff as our...