Is my mind my brain? 3: Monism: Idealism

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1. Solipsism:

  • All the things that exist depend on a mind to exist
  • The only thing that actually exists is your own mind, everything that you take to be real is just an idea in your mind
  • The only thing I can know for certain exists is my mind
  • Some things are mental or depend on the mental for their existence
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2. Who is the most famous idealist?

  • George Berkeley
  • Immanuel Kant
  • René Descartes
  • Socrates

3. Universal/global idealism:

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

4. What is Berkeley's idealism?

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

5. What is Occam's razor?

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