If you want to find Platonic Surrealism’s ultimate ‘weakness’, it would be the primary contention that only one thing exists – POTENTIALITY, the potential for information to exist and AWARENESS, the potential for this potential information to become aware of ‘itself’.
Then what follows is that everything that seemingly exists is just an information-only pattern playing all the roles and playing them all simultaneously.
A ‘universe’ is just a creative palette for this ‘play’ (self-expression).
Now if a philosopher or scientist wishes to argue against the potential for information
to exist, to quote “Star Wars” — “Laugh it up fuzzball”.
The other primary contention is that AWARENESS exists, and that’s just “I think, therefore I am” of René Descartes, which is really the entire philosophical foundation of western philosophy and science. I suppose that the final rejoinder is that Platonic Surrealism isn’t falsifiable… and that’s correct… and that’s a good thing too, or we wouldn’t be here to argue about it.
Kevin Cann
10/30/2024