BK

The pervasive but unexamined assumption that mind and matter constitute a dichotomy is an error arising from language artifacts. Members of true dichotomies must be epistemically symmetric and, therefore, reside in the same level of abstraction. Physically objective matter—as an explanatory model—is an abstraction of mind. We do not know matter in the same way that we know mind, for matter is an inference and mind a given. This breaks the epistemic symmetry between the two and implies that mainstream physicalism and idealism cannot be mirror images of one another.