Subjective idealism is a theory in the philosophy of perception. The theory describes a relationship between human experience of the external world, and that world itself, in which objects are nothing more than collections (or bundles) of sense data in those who perceive them. This theory has much in common with phenomenalism, the view that physical objects, properties, events, etc. (whatever is physical) are reducible to mental objects, properties, events, etc. Thus reality is ultimately made up of only mental objects, properties, events, etc. Subjective idealism is monist, because it states that only the mind exists (matter is a result of our perception). It is also solipsist, because existence is dependent on experience, and therefore if your consciousness were to stop existing, the rest of the universe would not exist.-wiki [Ron] Micah, is this definition close to your views? if so here is a site I'm sure you'll enjoy, http://modern-thinker.co.uk/4%20-%20subjective%20idealism.htm you may then cite such fore bearers in this field and have some sort of backing in your arguments. such as : George Berkeley (1685-1753) was the originator of the British tradition of Idealism. He was an anti-materialist : he denied that matter could exist on its own unsupported by a higher spiritual reality. In his view, only spiritual activity was real. His famous insight was that esse is percipi - that is, existence occurs through perception. Regards, Ron moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
