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….In favour of some form of idealism. I don't know if there are any people here that are dualistic idealists, but it certainly fits into the gnostic narrative. I usually try to tell them about the dichotomy between what we can see about the brain as a seemingly material thing, but how the experience that arises from this is not "livable" except by the "conciousness" which is located in this material thing. While we can change this material substance known as the brain to change the perceptions of the brain, the consciousness is still fundamentally inaccessible from a pure stepping-in perceptive point of view. This means that the fundamental substance is not one, but that something else "attaches" to this substance and becomes this substance, that this substance is a "gate" between the two substances. While the material substance then has the mundane, purely perceptive basis the idealistic one is the bigger, even if dependant upon the material the "greater" substance rises from the lesser substance and gives rise to the idealistic world of the mind.