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For a certain type of person, this monistic vision of life annihilates pluralism, optionality, and genuine diversity.

As monistic materialism (as well as cartesian dualism) in general, they always strike me as inelegant and needlessly contrived.

Philosophical positions such as monistic idealism or monistic materialism have both equal capability to be true, and unfortunately both are (as of now) beyond what scientific method can prove or falsify.

Humans may be treated as a particular kind of conscious observer, but in a monistic idealist take assuming they are alone in that seems insufficient to describe reality.

Just a note to some people replying to 'bkst: what Berkeley developed was a kind of monistic (not dualistic ) system.

Main reason is the strict monistic approach the German copyright law bases on.

That should be a hint about the issues with naive monistic materialism.

I was not implying qualia were magic, insofar as there can be monistic descriptions of qualia.

I find Cartesian dualism not a particularly elegant theory (even less so than monistic materialism).

(!) the problem is one of cardinality of our model, not lack of evidence; you can’t fit a dualistic two-peg (the mind and the brain) into a monistic one-hole (mind=brain).

A philosophical framework in which creating an artificial entity that is conscious and self-aware in a human-like manner is as straightforward as modeling the human brain is monistic materialism.

I would not claim to have my own, but variants of monistic idealism as I understand them presuppose the objective existence of consciousness and go from there.

And I have no idea what distinguishes a "monistic materialist" from a non-monistic materialist.

I didn't claim that memory specifically is immaterial, but that the material is not the "fundamental thing" of monistic metaphysics.

Further hinting at your tendency to assume monistic materialism is calling the systems “functionally identical”.

It’s obvious if you step outside of the dogma of monistic materialism, but even that aside it looks like decrease in life expectancy after losing a spouse in old age, “diseases of despair” (with terminal ends), reduction in mortality associated with late retirement are allegedly things that exist.