I am not getting into a protracted debate with you because frankly all your points are blanket statements with no evidence and you play with semantics to try to prove your points. This is my last reply to you.
no no no!!!!
Yes, yes, yes.
concepts do not exist independant of a thinking being,
This is an unsubstantiated statement(blanket statement). Saying that "God" thought the Universe into being doesen't solve anything! It doesen't explain God! It is a circular argument. We know that concepts can exist without any minds that we know of - we don't know if God exists, so it doesen't count. Gravity was working before Newton defined it as a law. The only minds we know of, our owns, are not required for concepts to exist.
mass/energy in all of its forms(the phsyical representation of concepts) exists independantely of a direct, observable cause.
What do you mean by this? You mean matter in it's essence? Yes, but saying that God created it all is a terrible explanation because it doesen't explain God. So we are back at square one.
But saying that matter in all of it's forms is not explainable is retarded. For instance, we know that atoms of Helium are formed when atoms of Hydrogen fuse. We know that molecules of water are formed when two atoms of Hydrogen combine with one of Oxygen. We know that matter burns to give out fumes and emit lights(photons). So the transformations of matter are very well understood in
all of it's forms except what explains matter at the most axiomatic level.
the physical representation of a concept is something altogether different from the concept itself.
Welll...hmmmm...duh.
concepts only reside in the mind of a thinking being.
Blanket statement and mostly falsifiable. We know they can exist independently of our minds, the only ones we know to exist. The mind of God? Ok, what "thought" God into existing? Saying that God thought himself into existing doesen't explain anything. God himself is also a concept, so God gave also birth to his very own concept? See how this leaves us at square one.
modern philosophy is based upon this idea. everything is subjective
You mean post-modernism? The impressions that Humans have on different topics is subjective due to different genetic programmings that result in brains with different levels of neurotransmitter and thus different patterns of electrochemical firings that result in different personalities that interpret facts differently, but reality is not. The Universe works with precise and unchangeable laws(objective).
It's sad that philosophers have degenerated into playing with semantics and worrying so much about context rather than precision and objectivity. The father of modern logic, Aristotle, was a philosopher, and it is sad that philosophers have lost touch with the reality.
SUCKMYMUSCLE