Yes, this does indeed reconcile them quite well. However (and I should have specified this so forgive me), what I had in mind was a sort of monism where what is considered to be physical and what is considered to be mental are identical. — Paul Michael

To me, that would be pissing in the wind. Monism, physical and mental, together, are incompatible, mutually inconsistent unless...the following makes sense:

1. All is mental (idealism).

That is to say,

2. The physical = The mental

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3. All is physical (physicalism).

That is to say,

4. The mental = The physical

Ergo,

5. All is mental (idealism) = All is physical (physicalism) [From 1, 2, 3, 4]

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