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Solipsism is non-physical monism. For monism there are two options kind of "everything is". For physicalists everything is physical, for nonphysicalists everything is nonphysical (mental?).

If Information never exists directly in the physical world. Why do you think there is any difference between physical and mental properties? We can take phenomenological reduction and talk about things as they appear for us - humans. Everything else is thing-in-itself - not accessible for us in prin...

The important thing is that to the dualist, the mental side is just as real as the physical. if we see one or few molecules, this is physically real. And If we see googols of them? There is some staff(isn't it physical?) we label it "water", "ice" or whatever. Can't see differen...

Thanks for answers and comments. In understand what do you mean by metaphysical properties. A state of matter like ice or liquid exists as part of a categorization that humans make when they observe the macroscopic behavior of H2O molecules. Though I don't thing that micro-level physical state like ...

Because the properties themselves are a type of data about the entity, you could in some ways consider them to be metaphysical What makes property metaphysical? If we take for example H2O and two different physical structures for ice and liquid - what exactly is metaphysical here and why? Are emerg...

Ok, I finally understand. Correct me if I'm wrong. We can divide everything into parts (arbitrary). Each part can be labeled "entity" and properties are nothing but structural changes of that entity. Confusion rises only from folk psychology point of view. It seems that brain can generate ...

The question is within context of analytic philosophy of mind. More precisely about emergence of consciousness, mind or any other non physical phenomenon. I'm confused because sometimes entity is referred as substance(material or non-material), so everything else is property of material/non-material...