RE: A Conscious Universe
February 9, 2015 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2015 at 11:37 am by Pizza.)
(February 8, 2015 at 10:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote:That was already happening. Example:(February 8, 2015 at 9:49 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote: If that's the case then both physicalism and idealism are vacuous positions making all arguments about them hot air.Are you trying to derail this thread with semantics, or do you have ideas about the nature of the universe that you'd like to discuss?
(February 8, 2015 at 12:10 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You seem to be describing us as information machines...while I'm describing us as physical machines. It's an awfully fine line...I certainly don't understand the resistance from you given this vast common ground.So I don't see how your disagreement with Rhythm is anything other than you disagreeing over words like "physical." If there is no difference between "physical" or "mental" in idealism I'm not sure why we should care. It would make no difference practically or little difference conceptually.
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal