(August 17, 2016 at 7:10 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Unlike most here, I take the issue of qualia (the subjective experience of what things are like) as quite mysterious. There's nothing I know about matter that would allow me to see red light as the experience of "redness." I take as one possibility either that the Universe is actually idealistic, with all the physical reality really being our experience of a conglomeration of ideas (something like the Matrix), or that the Universe is panpsychic-- i.e. that at least the elements of mind are in everything, or at least in every energetic interchange.
In either of those cases, you could DEFINE God as the sum total of the mental activity of the universe. But the problem with Christians who make this kind of philosophical argument is that it's a pivot point. They'll generally say something like: "Panpsychism, therefore God, therefore believe in Sky Daddy and the resurrection of Christ." This is a sad non sequitur at best.
qualia is not the only problem, there is something way more obvious. It’s this.
You are aware of simultaneous events. That is at any given instant say you were looking at tree that would mean you are aware of the collection of events. How come as special relativity (physics) precluded the possibility of simultaneous events creating anything collectively. Yet you experience is one and the same as these events at every instant if it were totally due to events alone.
