RE: Non-existence
August 13, 2009 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2009 at 5:33 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 13, 2009 at 5:07 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: JP's argument is simply meant to bring awareness of basic beliefs. The only thing you really know, for a fact, exists is your own "mind". To move to the next step, that you have a brain, is to assert a belief without evidence.That you have a mind/conscious experience is itself a (properly) basic belief.
(August 13, 2009 at 5:21 pm)theVOID Wrote: JP: Every assumption you have made is completely unnecessary, cut out the fud and come back to reality.It's not me making assumptions; I am only pointing out that you are yourself making assumptions, such as the assumption that you are conscious, the assumption that reality exists (in spite of quantum physicists disagreeing!), the assumption that other minds exists, etc.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton