Talk:Consciousness Studies/The Conflict2

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"Descartes pointed out one of the major problems for Idealism, he noticed that even if experience is like a dream it might contain consistent relationships that could be called "science" and hence be indistinguishable from the realist idea of the world."

I've deleted this since it's not a problem for idealism at all, if anything idealists would regard it as a demonstration of how their ideas could work.

This was quite central to Descartes' approach. From Descartes' viewpoint there is a type of idealism and a type of physicalism that are indistinguishable. It is probably worth getting this across - what do you think? RobinH 11:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I also deleted something that pointed out Descartes' limited scientfic knowledge when describing his views on unextended substances, it was a POV insertion since it implies the advance of science has made these views untenable.