RE: evolution
March 15, 2022 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2022 at 11:00 am by Angrboda.)
(March 15, 2022 at 10:48 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I believe that you can. I fact, I know that you can. Plenty of ink spilled on the ubiquity of the sense of the numinous in human beings. That's also a good candidate for an ability A, isn't it? A person can have a profound experience and that experience seems to be capable of influencing how they live their life from that point forward. Do you feel that I missed something in trying to consider an all b brain?
Does that mean it's a fact that I am sensing God?
If you're having trouble with that, let's try something simpler. When I stick this pencil in water it seems to be broken. Does that mean the pencil actually is broken and when I pull it out it magically restores itself?
You're not stupid enough to mistake such naive empiricism as compelling evidence for a fact.
The list goes on, and at each point you'll be forced into ad hoc excuses to salvage your argument. Free will, access to objective moral truths, impartial ability to assess risks, you can go through almost the entire catalog of cognitive biases.
And at each point, you'll require a new ad hoc excuse.
Please. The fact that something appears to be in A does not mean it actually is in A. You know this for other things, you just don't want to let go of the reins of your hobby horse.
Regardless, naive "observations" are not a compelling argument.
Got anything else?
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