>>12803833Step one is true (I promise). Step two and three are bullshit. All sense perceptions are mapped onto your own personal mental states. Step four is technically true, because the software is immaterial, however, you can decipher the thoughts of another brain using an interpretive map, they are not inaccessible to you. Materialism is a philosophy which is falsely equated with positivism. Materialism is analogous to the mathematician's statements that one should not introduce a coordinate system. The traditional idealists argue about which coordinate system to introduce, polar coordintes or rectangular coordinates. The positivists says "yes, you need a coordinate system, but each is as good as any other, so long as the material relations it predicts, or the sense impressions in your mind, are identical". This resolves the debate for good. It isn't materialism, because it admits a coordinate system, you are allowed to take any metaphysics. It isn't idealism, because it doesn't care which coordinate system you choose, so long as you can translate everything back and forth. This resolves the old debate, time to move on to other things.
