(May 22, 2016 at 7:06 pm)Ben Davis Wrote:(May 21, 2016 at 1:38 pm)quip Wrote: You[r] posts are not answering anything. Your outlines are explaining to me how you exists as you and I as I....rather than how in another possible world the precise inverse may have occurred and by what determination does the current scenario exist.They are providing you with complete and elegant answers but you're still missing the point.
I understand your point, I just believe there is more to the point than you're willing to examine. (BTW I appreciate your courteous objections on the issue.)
Quote: It's not as if our consciousnesses are floating around somewhere waiting for brains to inhabit. ...you have some unconscious assumptions about the nature of existence built in to your models.
Why ever not? That very idea's roughly equal to the Buddhist notion of the five skandhas, an idea of which you, likewise, cannot merely dismiss without employing your own "unconscious assumptions about the nature of existence built in to your models."
I'm not asking Atheists to believe as such (that would be entirely pretentious and a bit too much to ask.) but rather raising doubt to their assumed materialistic model of reality.