Having incomplete knowledge isn't the same as knowing nothing, though, and the gaps in knowledge certainly aren't license to draw crazy assumptions about what consciousness is or isn't.
Rik, the entire problem with your asinine argument (well, there are many problems with it, but let's focus) is that you're attempting to misplace the burden of proof.
You are claiming that a mysterious force called "dormant consciousness" lives inside every scrap of matter in the Universe, then when confronted with the fact that there is no evidence for that whatsoever, your only response is "But you can't prove that it doesn't exist, so I can continue to assert that it does. What do you think you know everything or something? Haha, you're stupid! Here's a picture of a donkey."
Science does not work that way. If you are claiming that something exists, the burden of proof is yours because it is impossible to "prove" that anything doesn't exist. It is possible, however, to prove that something does exist; it often takes only one tiny scrap of evidence to establish that something does indeed exist. This means the null hypothesis (nonexistence) is the default belief for anything that can't show evidence of itself.
Until you produce evidence of this "dormant consciousness" you speak of, you're only making yourself look like an idiot by calling people stupid and backward for not believing you.
Rik, the entire problem with your asinine argument (well, there are many problems with it, but let's focus) is that you're attempting to misplace the burden of proof.
You are claiming that a mysterious force called "dormant consciousness" lives inside every scrap of matter in the Universe, then when confronted with the fact that there is no evidence for that whatsoever, your only response is "But you can't prove that it doesn't exist, so I can continue to assert that it does. What do you think you know everything or something? Haha, you're stupid! Here's a picture of a donkey."
Science does not work that way. If you are claiming that something exists, the burden of proof is yours because it is impossible to "prove" that anything doesn't exist. It is possible, however, to prove that something does exist; it often takes only one tiny scrap of evidence to establish that something does indeed exist. This means the null hypothesis (nonexistence) is the default belief for anything that can't show evidence of itself.
Until you produce evidence of this "dormant consciousness" you speak of, you're only making yourself look like an idiot by calling people stupid and backward for not believing you.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com