[Dent]

I'm a monistic idealist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealis...sical_idealism

Monistic idealism holds that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being. It is monist because it holds that there is only one type of thing in the universe and idealist because it holds that one thing to be consciousness.

But also a physicalist, I don't think any "element of reality" missing from tomorrow's physics and their solutions.

"Physicalism" is sometimes treated as the formalistic claim that the natural world is exhaustively described by the equations of physics and their solutions.

I think the equations of physics describe fields of consciousness completely


As DP said earlier the properties of carbon and water might be the only thing capable of "phenomenal binding" binding is not well understood but I'll try again to explain it sometime.. William James first thought of it. not that carbon and water are the only thing that are capable of being experiential.


"if physicalistic idealism is true, then strictly speaking all consciousness, and only consciousness, exerts causal power, effectively mediated by what we normally recognise as the four forces of nature, or perhaps, ultimately, the vibration modes of higher-dimensional branes of M-theory. Only the physical has causal efficacy; and consciousness discloses the intrinsic nature of the physical."

Hopefully this helps a little.
One thing exists, it's consciousness, it's (mathematical properties are?) described exhaustively by physics.

I'll drop physicalism before accepting materialist physicalism



saving this for later

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the only way cognitively to grasp the values of the diverse subjective properties of the physical fields of experience that the solutions to the formalism encode is personally to instantiate bound neuronal superpositions of these subjective properties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_problem
http://consc.net/papers/combination.pdf