Kastrup: Idea of the World

I too reckon using substance dualism as a working model is probably the most productive approach to take.... as allowing for a provisional difference between physical stuff and mind stuff opens the door to pragmatic categorization and the application of appropriate terms of reference/tools of examination when investigating various phenomena. Otherwise the tendency to slip into solipsism and a complete, disintegrative blurring of boundaries is seemingly rather high. And, really, why try and argue away matter?

That said, I do like to think that there is some level of reality where these dualist oppositions are united. A non-dual whole, as it were. Yet if the ultimate is truly non-dual, then is can have no oppositions, it must include everything, and every possibility, including multiplicity, dualism, and differentness. So for the non-dual to be truly non-dual it has to allow for dualism. It also means that the ultimate nature of reality is most likely supra-rational (at least from our point of view) since we have nothing to compare or contrast it with, we cannot get outside of it.

So maybe it would be best to follow an ontologically pluralist approach to the world.

As for Neo-Platonists and Mr. Kastrup: For me, both schematics ultimately reduce to the foundation of existence being something akin to an impersonal mechanism. This strikes me as selling reality short.

Whew. I need a pill.