McTaggart argues that matter as he understands it does not exist and that mind is more likely to be immortal if it is not dependent on matter whereas I argue that matter, differently understood, does exist and that mind clearly depends on it.
His argument, even if valid, that internal sensations do not entail external sensed objects has no practical implications. A man still dies in agony if he is deprived of food. It remains necessary to live and work as if pre-conscious being, as described by physicists, not as abstracted from sensations, exists and matters. Any empirical evidence to the contrary would have to be considered whereas idealist metaphysical arguments make no difference and, in any case, can be replied to.
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