Is my mind my brain? 3: Monism: Idealism

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1. What is Occam's razor?

  • You are the only thing that exists in the whole universe
  • The simplest of any set of competing hypotheses is guaranteed to be true, and its competitors are guaranteed to be false
  • Simpler hypotheses are more likely to be true than complex hypotheses
  • Solipsism is true; the only thing that exists is me
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2. What is Berkeley's idealism?

  • The only thing that actually exists is your own mind, everything that you take to be real is just an idea in your mind
  • All the things that exist depend on a mind to exist
  • Some things are mental or depend on the mental for their existence
  • There is a pattern to our various ideas and that this pattern requires an explanation

3. Who is the most famous idealist?

  • Socrates
  • George Berkeley
  • René Descartes
  • Immanuel Kant

4. Universal/global idealism:

  • Everything is mental
  • Everything that exists is a physical thing
  • Some things are mental or depend on the mental for their existence
  • There is only one fundamental kind of thing

5. Idealism:

  • Everything that exists is a mental thing
  • There are two kinds of things in the world, everything is physical or mental but nothing is both
  • Everything that exists is a physical thing
  • There is only one kind of thing in the world, physical or mental

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