(October 5, 2016 at 8:02 am)bennyboy Wrote:(October 5, 2016 at 7:58 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Sorry, a little late to this party. What makes such an assumption unreasonable?
Nothing's wrong with making assumptions. I make some in order to feel it's worthwhile living and getting out of bed in the morning.
The problem is that assumptions ingrained in the world view, if they are also treated as objects of observation or conclusions of inquiry, lead to a nasty circle-- a kind of implicit begging of the question, if you will.
But...does any evidence exist which points to a non-material explanation for mind? Do we have any competing theories outside of non-scientific philosophical concepts and hypotheses? I mean...poking at the materialist explanation of mind to the point where you have actually retreated back into a full-blown solipsism hole is not actually fostering a functional positive argument for any of the possible alternatives. It's just like a "God of the gaps" argument.
Is it unreasonable to operate under the assumption that the hypothesis of solipsism is probably NOT an accurate model of reality? That the world I experience actually, physically exists? If that is not an unreasonable assumption to make, then I don't see why it would be unreasonable to also assume that other people experience this physical world via a similar mechanism, even if we haven't found a way to perfectly describe it yet.
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Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
