Monday, December 4, 2023
Why Idealism is more sensible than Naturalism
Naturalism is predicated on the idea of materialism, or that observed proceses is responsible for all things that exist. But if this is the case then this is nothing more than materialism 2.0 or physicalism. It suggests that mind, or consciousness, emerges from lifeless, dead, thoughtless, purposeless, matter. And yet, this is inconceivable. I can’t conceive of any possible way in which matter would produce mind or intention or consciousness. However, I can conceive how mind, or intention, or consciousness, can produce matter or physical systems. By a thought, other thoughts can be produced. By intention, other intentionalities can be produced. These intentionalities, personalities, through their interactions, likewise produce modes of interactions which are themselves things like number, and then ultimately rules, laws, physical properties. When an intentional PERSON, a someone, interacts with another someone, the mode of interaction forms a system of rules or laws or habits. These in turn have a set of properties which are observable, testable, etc. But one needn’t have these systems to have the intention or the person. However, in order to have the system, we have to have interactions between people. For a system is a set of laws. And a set of laws are rules. And rules are intentioned guidelines for interactions. But with purely physical phenomena, there is no intention or personal interaction therefore there cannot be rules. If there cannot be rules, there cannot be laws. If there cannot be laws there cannot be physics. What this boils down to is the concept of life after death and that having a different mode of interactions between other intentionalities, or personalities, is certainly reasonable. The fact that our ‘bodies’ die is nothing more than our ‘focus’ on one mode of interaction which has its limits. But from a naturalist’s perspective, there can be no life after death. And yet, from a naturalistic perspective it is impossible to see how there can be life FROM death in the first place.
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