(November 6, 2016 at 2:48 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: God doesn't exist in the mind. The concept of God exists in the mind. Superman doesn't exist in the mind. The concept of Superman exists in the mind.
Now here's a question: Does the imagination exist? And here's another: Does imaginaryness exist? And here's another: is there a difference between the two previous questions?
I don't know about that. The mind seems capable of animating what it likes, with or without our deliberate participation. I don't think you should confuse anything one contrives deliberately -like the idea of 'superman', with that which one experiences interactively and subjectively. A true believer does not have one hand up the god puppet's sock any more than he has one up his own. Properly planted and cultivated I suspect the mind can animate a presence of god.*
*Disclaimer: the god one's mind can animate had no hand in creation, is omni-nothing and has no existence apart from the mind that animates it. Then again, I'm not sure who I take myself to be has any existence apart from the mind that is animating 'me' either. So most likely gods have no more existence than we do.
