Since we  explained in the last part how everything exist within the day dream of God we are now going to distinguish between things that can exist in objective idealism and things that are non-existent in objective idealism. Keep in mind I’m not saying any of these things exist/don’t exist or that its impossible for them to exist or not exist just that under objective idealism there are certain things that CAN exist and others that CANNOT exist. So if your not an objective idealist then what I will talk about might not apply to you but if your an objective idealist where you believe the universe is in the mind of God then this would apply to you. So now lets get started with the different things that can and cannot exist if objective idealism were true.

Objective idealism says that objects can still exist independent of OUR minds but it would still be dependent on Gods mind. So then matter would still be mind-dependent just not dependent on our minds. So what can exist in objective idealism is matter being simulated (or dependent) in Gods mind so then anything that is in our universe would be mind-dependent on God. To make it simple this is what existence is defined as in objective idealism

Existence according to objective idealism: All the things that are dependent on God’s mind for existence.

Since idealism says the mind is fundamental then in objective idealism there would be one perceive (God) that simulates everything into existence and so existence would be defined as everything that exist within the mind of God and anything in the mind of God would exist in our reality.

Now that we have defined what existence is in objective idealism we will now define what non-existence means in objective idealism. In our every day lives when we say something does not exist it means that it is not part of reality and thus is something that we will never experience. For example we know married bachelors don’t exist because that is a logical contradiction so it would be considered non-existent. In objective idealism there are also things considered non-existent which I will now define.

Non-existence according to objective idealism: Anything that is completely mind-independent

What this means is that things or objects that are not dependent on anyone’s mind including Gods mind would be non-existent in objective idealism. In other words all things that are mind-independent (not dependent on a mind) would not exist. So then if objective idealism is true then nothing is mind-independent and everything that exist would be dependent on a mind.

In fact we could not even conceive of a mind-independent reality without a mind so you cant logically think of a reality that is independent of the mind. Which means it would make more sense to say that anything mind-independent is as meaningful as a married bachelor since the concept of a mind-independent reality is a logical contradiction (since you would need to conceive the concept of a mind-independent reality with a mind) so it should be considered non-existent since everything we do is dependent on a mind.

So that is the difference between existence and non-existence according to objective idealism. In the next part we are going to refute common objections to objective idealism. I will leave you a quote from Max Planck to close of this part of the series.

“I regard consciousness as fundamental . I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness” – Max Planck, The observer (25 January 1931)