Neoplatonism is the new form of classical Platonism which says there are platonic forms that exist outside of space and time. Another name for Neoplatonism is divine conceptualism where platonic forms exist eternally in Gods mind.

The world of the forms would be the world that is more fundamental than the physical. So ideas are more fundamental than physical objects. The idea of a sphere is a platonic forms outside of space-time and is more real than a basketball. What we see in the physical world is only the shadow of the platonic world of real forms so the analogy of Plato’s cave is important here.

If we say platonic forms don’t exist then we either have to say knowledge is not possible (Violates law of non-contradiction) or that things can be justified independently (Violates Godels theorem) but of course choosing either one of these would destroy epistemology so for knowledge to be justified platonic forms must exist since knowledge is intrinsic and Platonic forms are intrinsic knowledge.

Now we have shown before how physical reality is a mental construct generated from an immaterial reality and this immaterial reality would be where the platonic forms exist. Our minds would be in-between the platonic world and the physical world. We will discuss this difference in (Part 6) so I don’t want go into detail.

Next is how our minds would work between the brain and mind. We already concluded the universe is a simulation so then our brains would be a part of that simulation. In idealism there is the mind the the experience of the physical world (simulated world) and so if you damage the brain you will damage the experience in that simulated world since the brain and mind are the same substance (Mental substance). And it will change the way we behave in the simulation. And as we discussed in the last part of this series quantum cognition models our thoughts outside of space-time so then we can interact with platonic forms

Free will is the ability to chose between different outcomes and that an agent can start a chain of events and that chain can also effect other future choices that an agent (mind) will make in the future. Under idealism free will would be true and people would not be predetermined by prior causes. Next we will be looking at inner space vs outer space and what the difference between the two actually are in objective idealism.

Note that this part was only about platonic forms and we will get more in detail in the next part of this series about the fundamental distinction about inner space and outer space.