The basic reasoning about what is real turns between illusion and materialism. Subjectivism, Intersubjectivism, Idealism, Phenomenalism, and Solipsism present material objects (matter) as creations of consciousness. In other words, all that appear to be objects are illusions, dependent on being only through the creations of our minds. Physicalism and Objectivism are the remaining theories that are acceptable to the majority of philosophers. Physicalism is a bridge too far to my thinking. Could there be something more than the physical? In that I am aware that I am aware, I have some feeling of consciousness generated by the brain yet somehow separate. And therein is why I discard Physicalism in favor of Objectivism. It is what it is! No word, mental or pshchological games. Bertrand Russell in The Problems of Philosophy makes clear that objects, no matter how we perceive them, are real. Our perceptions of matter are as real as the matter, however, bound by the senses. It is this limit to absolute knowledge of objects that opens up certain thinkers to consider matter as illusionary or constructed mentally.
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