Posted: Dec 01, 2020 2:51 am
If you're going to those extremes to ignore consilience, why not go one step further and deny your own existence?
You can't prove *anything* exists through philosophical argumentation alone. If that drives you to solipsism there's no reason it shouldn't drive you to believe nothing exists at all and to abandon philosophy altogether.
The thing is most people are trying to explain what they perceive, and solipsism - and indeed Kastrup's idealism - don't actually do that. No matter how hard you try if you conceive the world as purely mental there's no reason for other people to behave as though they are like you. There's no reason for object permanence or laws of physics. Sure, you can believe it if you want to, but to claim as Kastrup does that this is reasoned or evidenced is the height of folly.
You can't prove *anything* exists through philosophical argumentation alone. If that drives you to solipsism there's no reason it shouldn't drive you to believe nothing exists at all and to abandon philosophy altogether.
The thing is most people are trying to explain what they perceive, and solipsism - and indeed Kastrup's idealism - don't actually do that. No matter how hard you try if you conceive the world as purely mental there's no reason for other people to behave as though they are like you. There's no reason for object permanence or laws of physics. Sure, you can believe it if you want to, but to claim as Kastrup does that this is reasoned or evidenced is the height of folly.