RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
January 19, 2016 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2016 at 12:18 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 19, 2016 at 4:08 am)Irrational Wrote:(January 19, 2016 at 3:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The evidence to hand, however, supports the hypothesis that subjective experience comports fairly closely with objective reality, absent mind-altering drugs or other outside influences.
Can we really know how close we are to objective reality? What is objective reality anyway? I see a reality beyond and around me, but can I trust that this reality I see closely resembles objective reality whatever it may be. I see objects with clear outlines and varying colors, but is that what objective reality is composed of?
If what we perceived didn't comport with an objective reality, do you think for a moment natural selection would've let that slide for 250,000 years? How is it that millions of people all see the same tower in the middle of Paris? Do you think the ground at the foot of the cliff gives a shit about your perceptions?
Be it known, I reject solipsism as internally contradictory. If you're going to make an argument for it, you'd best not use the Argument from Ignorance, as well.
