RE: If beauty doesn't require God, why should morality? (Bite me Dr. Craig.)
July 29, 2014 at 7:49 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2014 at 7:54 am by bennyboy.)
(July 29, 2014 at 2:41 am)whateverist Wrote: " Why does anything in the universe have this capacity for the existence of subjective experience, rather than just grinding through its mechanical processes sans esprit?"
"What about this universe, which is supposed to be a deterministic interplay of four fundemental forces and energy in different states over time, requires/allows anything like a subjective perspective?"
Being astonished by something which has already come to pass seems like a poor foundation for an argument. Who are we to say what the universe is supposed to be or not be? Sorry, I'm just not feeling it.
Strange. You wouldn't feel uncomfortable asking "Why does the universe exist, rather than not?" would you?
The existence of mind is strange because the academic context we are mainly working in is a purely physical model. You often get stuff like "qualia is just the experience of brain chemistry," and the person saying it actually believes he's giving an answer. Fine-- what exactly about brain chemistry, or about lobe X, or about a single neuron, causes qualia to exist rather than not to? Anyone who thinks it's less than a complete mystery is, in my opinion, acting more on dogma than on curiosity.
