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<blockquote data-quote="pariah" data-source="post: 56732" data-attributes="member: 235"><p>There are different variations of idealism. Berkely's idealism does indeed make the claim that nothing can exist without a mind to perceive it. But he was a Christian, and to him God was the supreme mind, and that is how things remained consistent and in place.</p><p></p><p>As for me, I believe that the universe itself, taken as a whole, is mental. Call it a God or whatever you want to call it. However, it would not cease to exist if I stop perceiving it. It exists, because it itself is also a mind. What I see, hear and feel when I interact with the world is only a representation of that mind, an image, but not the thing-in-itself.</p><p></p><p>By the way, if you feel that we're only arguing semantics here, then that's because most of philosophy amounts to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pariah, post: 56732, member: 235"] There are different variations of idealism. Berkely's idealism does indeed make the claim that nothing can exist without a mind to perceive it. But he was a Christian, and to him God was the supreme mind, and that is how things remained consistent and in place. As for me, I believe that the universe itself, taken as a whole, is mental. Call it a God or whatever you want to call it. However, it would not cease to exist if I stop perceiving it. It exists, because it itself is also a mind. What I see, hear and feel when I interact with the world is only a representation of that mind, an image, but not the thing-in-itself. By the way, if you feel that we're only arguing semantics here, then that's because most of philosophy amounts to that. [/QUOTE]
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