/sci/ - Science & Math

Idealists claim that the only thing we can ever be certain of and have direct access to is fundamental to reality (consciousness).

On the other hand, materialists claim that quantitative entities for which they have never and will never directly know are fundamental to reality. Every once in a while during a paradigm shift, he will come up with new quantitative entities for which he will never know directly.

By sticking to what we know for certain, the Idealist is clearly not the schizo here.

This isn't to discount the usefulness of materialist constructions. Physics has very useful fictions that allow us to predict the behavior of nature as represented within human consciousness. It is like a kid who is very good at playing a video game predicting the movements within it with his theories, kudos to him, but knowing how the game behaves tells you nothing about what the game is (electricity, binary, logic gates, hardware, ...)

Lets begin to model its behavior:https://escholarship.org/content/qt2d34n6zf/qt2d34n6zf.pdf?t=p2ng2g

Come to the right side, anon. Smelly materialists will continue to pick their asshole on how it could have emerged from something non-conscious, an impossible problem to solve.

It seems the metaphysics of materialism IS the problem with making sense of consciousness.

There is a fundamental incommensurability between materials (which are not
in any way related to consciousness) and the category of consciousness. Trying to bridge incommensurable things is then labeled "the hard problem of consciousness".

In my view, the hard problem is built in from your chosen metaphysics. It seems you are trying to solve an impossible problem - bridging two categories that are in now way like each other.

A rational, empirical case for postmortem
survival based solely on mainstream science

https://bigelowinstitute.org/Winning_Essays/Brnardo_Kastrup.pdf

Is this guy a schizo or a the kind of guy who will be looked at 1000 years from now as someone who lead us out of ignorant darkness?

I can't tell.