(October 1, 2015 at 2:50 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: Benny I am not begging the question. I tend towards that conclusion because there is overwhelming, independent and objective evidence to support that assertion.This it the mating call of the materialist. But you are ignoring my main argument: since one hundred percent of "evidence" collected is collected through the agency of mind, there's no such thing as demonstrably objective evidence.
Quote:I think it is you who are equivocating. If you are going to follow through on scepticism it seems proper to ask some simple questions. Do you have a mind? How do you know? Its properly basic to say you are conscious, but how do you get from Consciousness (basic awareness) to Mind (structures enabling you to think philosophical thoughts).What's this stuff about structures enabling thoughts? You'd better tell me where you get this language from, because to me, it is so obviously couched to beg the question that there's little more to be said about it. What structures do you mean? And if you mean brain, then you'd better go on to define thoughts in your terms as well.
