(September 17, 2016 at 6:43 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: We NEVER experience the same thing as other people. No one experiences the red I experience. (I'll put on my materialist hat now and say that, since everything I experience happens in MY material brain, and since everything they experience happens in THEIR material brains, we can't possibly, EVER experience the same thing. I really wonder if materialists, on the whole, really understand their own "theory of the senses," carry it to its logical conclusion, and, most importantly, INCORPORATE IT INTO THEIR THINKING.) No one ever experiences anything anyone else experiences. I don't even know that the "space" in my experiences is something other "people" experience anything "in."
Rubbish!
How many people experience a falling from a building at terminal velocity and hitting the ground, differently?
Fact is, there are some things about material reality that are the same for everyone.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
