(July 12, 2011 at 1:42 am)theVOID Wrote: The difference is in the probability of each proposition being true which is extremely important when we are positing that something existed at s1 (the first state of affairs) as a brute fact. The more simple explanation, the state of affairs that requires the least amount of information to describe, is the most likely explanation all else being equal, because we are starting at s1 all else is necessarily equal.
I was making an analogy by using the example of an algorithm, but my real point is that, the fact that we have consciousness and emotions is a good reason to think that what they came from already includes consciousness within itself (which is God). We know that consciousness was made possible by many complex interactions between chemicals and particles, and if so, then this means that the level of complexity which existed at the very beginning was capable of producing conscious beings like you and me. So the universe is already complex in that sense. Therefore, it wouldn't be illogical to believe that there was already consciousness before s1 because it already contains the amount of information necessary to produces eyes, brains, feelings, and everything else (that makes us human). Otherwise, we wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be talking about this right now.
