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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  I'm not asking about a mere end. I'm asking what it means for my experiences to be located in my body, which is a product of mindstuff, but not my mind, which is also a product of mindstuff. Seems like a fundamental question to me. |
Your experiences are not located within your body.
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But the idealist doesn't argue that our minds are distinct; they argue that everything is mind. It's the dualists arguing that our minds are distinct. Are there any dualists left around these days?
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Almost everyone's a dualist. Uncommon amongst scientists and philosophers perhaps, but not the general population.
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Anyhoo, I agree that pestering someone for details of their new theory can be annoying. How about a whiff of a scent of an idea how the theory works? And how about the folks with the new ideas not ragging on scientists because they don't have all the details of consciousness yet? If lack of details is not a reason to discard, it should apply across the board.
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Consciousness cannot in principle be scientifically explained. Consciousness is a basic existent.