Let's discuss some fucking metaphysics.

Which of these would you put yourself under:

Pluralism:
- There are many fundamental substances which things are reducible to.
- An example would be Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.

Dualism:
- Mind and matter are two fundamentally different substances. Things may be reduced to the material or the mental, but neither can be reduced to the other.
- Descartes was a notable dualist.

Idealist:
- Only the mental fundamentally exists; everything, including the material, is reducible to the mental.
- Kant was a notable idealist.

Materialism:
- Only the material fundamentally exists; everything, including the mental, is reducible to the material.
- Richard Dawkins is a notable materialist.

Neutral monism:
- There is a fundamental substance which everything is reducible to, but it is neither material nor mental and both can be reduced to this neutral substance.
- David Hume was probably a notable neutral monist (this sort of monism is incredibly rare amongst philosophers).

Eliminativist Nihilism:
- There is no fundamental substance to which everything is reducible; in essence, objects do not meaningfully exist.

In my not so educated on this opinion, materialism makes the most sense to me.

Materialist

Dualism, in my tragically unexercized opinion of metaphysics...

Unexercized in the sense that I'm not an ideal person to have a conversation about this with.

Yeah, actually...

I change my mind; materialism, as long as you concede that the consciousness exists. I wouldn't think purist materialism in that sense would include consciousness in the equation, hence my decision to take dualism first...

Yeah, actually...

I change my mind; materialism, as long as you concede that the consciousness exists. I wouldn't think purist materialism in that sense would include consciousness in the equation, hence my decision to take dualism first...

Funny you mentioned that.

Materialism is actually split into two camps. Eliminativists think mental processes (or a lot of them) don't actually exist, and only the physical matters. Reductionists fully acknowledge mental processes, but believe they can be firmly reduced down to the physical foundation of the brain.

In other words, eliminativists, in a sense, deny the mind.

Similar to monism. .

Essentially: both the mental and physical realms are reduced down to consciousness in its purest from, that being simply 'just being,' which is the one absolute truth that supersedes all others.

Similar to monism. .

Essentially: both the mental and physical realms are reduced down to consciousness in its purest from, that being simply 'just being,' which is the one absolute truth that supersedes all others.

That seems like idealism, to me.