(September 14, 2015 at 3:07 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: Premise 1 and 2 is flawed to me. Solipsism would produce a consciousness conscious only of itself and thus a metaphysical contradiction.
so you never heard of self awareness or introspection? this is where the phrase 'I think therefore I am' comes from. everything else you say builds on that one point so i'll leave it at that.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo