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Originally Posted by Original Position
The word "sun" refers to the giant ball of gas around which the Earth orbits. When I think the sentence: "the sun is bright today," there is some physical correlate (presumably) to this thought located in my head, but the actual giant ball of gas is not itself in my head. Your argument relies on believing that the giant flaming ball of gas is actually in your head, and so if your head was no longer around to think about it, the sun itself would disappear.
But your perception of the sun is a function of your brain. When you look at something, your transducers (eyes, ears, nerves, etc) are converting 'something' into electrical signals and then those electrical signals hit your brain and you
think you see the sun. You dont actually have any experience of the sun outside of your own brain/mind, do you?
If your brain shuts off, your experience of the universe would likely end. So to say that the universe wouldn't disappear is false. It would disappear to
you.
This proves at the very least that your interaction with 'the universe' really is happening in your mind.
Conversely, the universe would not be the universe without your mind (or more generally, mind). So in a very real way, the universe is as dependent on mind (in a general, global way) as your mind is on it (in a specific, local way).
Mind corresponds to Reality in a fundamental way.
That something I mentioned earlier is probably information, and our minds are information processors. If the stuff of the universe really is information, and mind corresponds to reality in a fundamental way, then the universe must itself be a giant information processor.
If you think about it a bit, it cant be any other way. How could the universe maintain its consistency unless it was processing its own information? How could it assure that A v ~A is followed across all its constituent parts? Wouldn't just one example of A + ~A render the entire universe inconsistent?
Last edited by Do0rDoNot; 01-04-2019 at 06:38 PM.