Materialism & Idealism

Materialism invites idealism to the table with the question ‘can nature know itself if not through members of itself? Is the complete presentation of S&T the collection of all pure intuitive modes of S&T? It seems no, it seems that outside the bounds of participants of the Universe there remains a view of S&T that is actually devoid of temporality and spatiality. A person that shrinks to the subquantum level will still be incapable of experiencing natural laws that don’t make regular sense to their sensibilities, to their three dimensional and linear experience of space-time. We can’t see 10 dimensions anymore than we can experience the four dimensional exposition of time that Einstein supposes as the glomular shape of the Universe. So nature’s laws are under no obligation to disclose themselves to our experience, that’s why we draw on idealistic modes of inquiries in the natural sciences, deductive hypothesizing, mathematical formalism that abstracts from empirical experience. Idealism sends imagination to all sorts of places to evade the material restrictions of our experience. A dialogue between idealism and materialism sees the world inviting the Mind to observe and experience its own idyllic happenstance, the guiding principles and final grounds of matter, and so it seems, the Ideas as well ( huh Hegel!). As visitors in Nature’s Mind however, certain conditions are placed on Us. What are these conditions?

1. I belong in It and It belongs in Me.

   1. Non-instrumentality of epistemic inquiry

   2. Relational view of the Self

2. Nature houses and contains Me

   1. Condition of epistemic humility, properly assigned authority to Nature as holding ontological priority to the observer, and being the leading authority on its own happenstance

   2. The observer as being-in-time and being-in-the-world, Heidegger and the positionality of Dasein

3. Nature is under no obligation to make sense to you or yield to your conceptual needs, instead a certain mental and emotive fluidity is needed to adapt, interact and be receptive to this active and living intellect.