RE: The main reason I'm an atheist
April 1, 2016 at 1:30 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2016 at 1:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Abstraction is fairly simple to explain vie mechanical means. It's how computers work, after all. It's also how you determine whether it's hot or cold outside, and specifically -how- hot or cold, in part. You see, you have no "internal mercury thermometer", no way of measuring the temperature -itself-. What you can detect, is the rate of energy exchange between your body and the ambient air (or an object).
The hitch to telling whether it's hot or cold, -abstracting-....in this manner, amusingly, is an inability to reliably determine the difference between a very hot or a very cold iron without mountains of additional and related data. Even if you have that additional data the method can still be spoofed...you can "feel hot" or "feel cold" in ways completely unrelated to the actual temperature...and each individual human being seems to have different thresholds for hot and cold as relative descriptors; thusly we both walk outside and one of us says "must be 90 out here at least"...and the other says "nah, 85, tops".
Your body abstracts "temperature" from "rate of energy exchange", with your skin as the instrument (very physical..I hope you'll agree) -and "you" (whatever that is) use the one to make an educated guess at the other. The upshot of all of this, is that now...you can't even use your argument from ignorance anymore.
The hitch to telling whether it's hot or cold, -abstracting-....in this manner, amusingly, is an inability to reliably determine the difference between a very hot or a very cold iron without mountains of additional and related data. Even if you have that additional data the method can still be spoofed...you can "feel hot" or "feel cold" in ways completely unrelated to the actual temperature...and each individual human being seems to have different thresholds for hot and cold as relative descriptors; thusly we both walk outside and one of us says "must be 90 out here at least"...and the other says "nah, 85, tops".
Your body abstracts "temperature" from "rate of energy exchange", with your skin as the instrument (very physical..I hope you'll agree) -and "you" (whatever that is) use the one to make an educated guess at the other. The upshot of all of this, is that now...you can't even use your argument from ignorance anymore.
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