| I'm a rationalist. An honest rationalist is logically compelled to be an immaterialist. Immaterialism does not imply theism. What is strange about today is that the materialists themselves have discovered their own refutation, but instead of just acknowledging it, they redefined their favorite word "matter" to have all the properties of the things that are incompatible with matter. They proved themselves right by redefining their word to mean its opposite--to mean what the opponents of materialism always claimed. What are the properties of mind? * unextended, like the photon (Descartes) * indeterministic, like the collapse of the quantum wave function that occurs "randomly" rather than "deterministically" * perceiving, like Schrodinger's observer who causes the collapse of the wavefunction when he perceives the cat Berkeley the famous immaterialist empiricist idealist said, "To be is to be perceived" ... and now quantum physics says the same thing... but insist that they are still materialists. It's really quite hilarious. |