RE: Arguments for God's Existence from Contingency
November 28, 2017 at 3:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2017 at 3:11 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 28, 2017 at 2:52 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Nope measurements are just human inventions that have culturally evolved as a patch for our imperfect brains
Exactly. Hence why time is either illusory or it transcends empirical reality. We make measurements to try and understand the way we experience our reality, but those measurements themselves are just tools to help us understand just that: the way we experience reality . . . they don't relate to reality itself outside of our experience. I'm with Parmenides on this one: Reality itself is just one indestructible entity. But no, it's not God, it's just the totality of all existence, which is eternal and permanent, and calling that "God" is misleading and futile (besides, all of science itself has so far confirmed Parmenides's contention that reality is indestructible. We broke atoms down into smaller parts but we've never found a way to destroy anything completely. Everything appears to just be broken down further and further. I think this is because Parmenides is right: energy cannot be created or destroyed. Physical reality is indeed ultimately indestructible). It's not so much that everything is connected, it's that there's only really one thing, and the reason why we see things as separate entities is because that's the best way for us to make sense of the world we live in. We make those distinctions and measurements, that are indeed human inventions, made by our imperfect brains, just as you say.