Re: Philosophical Idealism and Cosmology

 Bishop Berkeley developed the theory of idealism perhaps following Plato. Berkeley called it ‘ideaism’. His Three Dialogues are quite good. One can skip to the modern world and the deconstruction of empiricism that Quine accomplished in his ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’. He demonstrated that logically one need rely on thought at some point in making arguments about the nature of reality. That doesn’t mean that one cannot make statements about the ‘real’ world of common experience/ It is just that everyone perceives it subjectively. A simple illustration is the interpretation of a human mind of photon wavelengths that create the appearance of color in a human brain and mind. There is not color in the photons themselves; not even the color force.

 It is worth remembering that the entire material, physical world is a secondary appearance or quality of energy slowed down into three dimensions when encountering the Higgs Field. Those are the slightly slower than light speed quanta of atoms that makes the material world to exist-for-humans. What that actually is for-itself is difficult to say. Kant’s outlook of the noumenon may in a sense be applicable to the unknown generally. There is perhaps quite a lot of stuff about cosmology that no one knows nor may every know.