RE: A Necessary Being?
September 1, 2016 at 11:37 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 11:41 pm by bennyboy.)
I think a lot of this comes down to my experience of existence. In my experience, 100% of reality is both subjective and objective-- there's a perfect duality there between me the experiencer and whatever is being experienced. In fact, 0% of what I know (unless you call instinct knowledge) is knowable outside that subject/object duality.
I'd say, with no other knowledge than that, that some kind of Deity or eternal mind is a reasonable candidate.
Most people now take the material objective universe as fact, and many of those categorize mind, even though its subjective, as a byproduct or correlate of that objective "reality." (quotes not because it's not true, but because it's not philosophically proven/provable). From that perspective, a lack of Deity might at first seem sensible. But it seems to me that modern physics (google "quantum eraser experiments") really makes it hard to discard the subjective perspective as nothing more than a byproduct-- it may be something that is intrinsic to the fabric of reality.
If so, and this is not mere speculation but an inference from the most modern science, I'd say we could go back to some kind of mental agent being intrinsic to cosmogony.
I'd say, with no other knowledge than that, that some kind of Deity or eternal mind is a reasonable candidate.
Most people now take the material objective universe as fact, and many of those categorize mind, even though its subjective, as a byproduct or correlate of that objective "reality." (quotes not because it's not true, but because it's not philosophically proven/provable). From that perspective, a lack of Deity might at first seem sensible. But it seems to me that modern physics (google "quantum eraser experiments") really makes it hard to discard the subjective perspective as nothing more than a byproduct-- it may be something that is intrinsic to the fabric of reality.
If so, and this is not mere speculation but an inference from the most modern science, I'd say we could go back to some kind of mental agent being intrinsic to cosmogony.
