RE: The real religion?
August 9, 2016 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2016 at 7:55 pm by bennyboy.)
Also, let me play devil's advocate here, and enter with a single word: qualia.
Literally EVERYTHING we know about the universe, absolutely 100%, is known through the mind. So to speculate that whatever is at the most elemental or primal point of the universe is at least partly concsious shouldn't really seem like a crazy or exceptional argument. Yeah, maybe that's a kind of implied god of the gaps argument-- but the existence of subjective experience is a pretty huge (all-encompassing, really) gap.
The current physicalist position is that there was stuff. Then stuff organized and interacted with itself, and then. . . I can see red light as the subjective experience of "redness." That's, logically speaking, a lot more magical to me than the idea that mind is intrinsic to the Universe, and maybe to whatever created it, if it even ever was created.
Literally EVERYTHING we know about the universe, absolutely 100%, is known through the mind. So to speculate that whatever is at the most elemental or primal point of the universe is at least partly concsious shouldn't really seem like a crazy or exceptional argument. Yeah, maybe that's a kind of implied god of the gaps argument-- but the existence of subjective experience is a pretty huge (all-encompassing, really) gap.
The current physicalist position is that there was stuff. Then stuff organized and interacted with itself, and then. . . I can see red light as the subjective experience of "redness." That's, logically speaking, a lot more magical to me than the idea that mind is intrinsic to the Universe, and maybe to whatever created it, if it even ever was created.
