RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 19, 2016 at 1:21 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2016 at 1:24 am by bennyboy.)
I should clarify. When I said "elements," I didn't mean things like form, color, and so on. I meant the most primitive possible spark of mind, as opposed to totally not-mind. It seems to me that mind must be binary-- either something does or doesn't have at least a tiny capacity to experience the universe. So my question isn't so much about how I see a tree as a tree, but about how a very simple system might respond to say an individual photon.
As for evidence. . . I'm strongly agnostic on this position. I don't think it is possible to know if ANY physical system, even another human being, really experiences the universe. In the case of people, I strongly believe they do, in the case of incoherent object (i.e. where the parts don't allow for an integrated flow of information), I strongly believe they do not. But in the case of say an atom or a galaxy, I haven't the foggiest idea whether they can experience anything, or how to go about determining whether they do.
As for evidence. . . I'm strongly agnostic on this position. I don't think it is possible to know if ANY physical system, even another human being, really experiences the universe. In the case of people, I strongly believe they do, in the case of incoherent object (i.e. where the parts don't allow for an integrated flow of information), I strongly believe they do not. But in the case of say an atom or a galaxy, I haven't the foggiest idea whether they can experience anything, or how to go about determining whether they do.
