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Why the vision argument is a very good one!
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RE: Why the vision argument is a very good one!
April 17, 2018 at 8:35 pm (This post was last modified: April 17, 2018 at 8:37 pm by robvalue.)
The very notion of "ourselves" is massively vague, anyway. All we ever get is our brain's representation of the data it is receiving. We never get to compare it to the "real us", if such a thing is even coherent. Our brain is also the thing that "decides" what counts as part of ourselves and what doesn't; and such notions can be fooled, or outright broken.

I know religious people will start talking about (unevidenced and ill-defined) souls, to suddenly strip away everything that (apparently) makes us up in the first place, making the whole thing redundant.

Even if there is a "real us", so what? This just means reality conforms to some sort of specific logic or physical rules. No God required.
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Why the vision argument is a very good one!

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RE: Why the vision argument is a very good one! - by Aegon - April 17, 2018 at 10:33 am
RE: Why the vision argument is a very good one! - by Aegon - April 17, 2018 at 10:35 am
RE: Why the vision argument is a very good one! - by GUBU - April 21, 2018 at 7:55 am
RE: Why the vision argument is a very good one! - by robvalue - April 17, 2018 at 8:35 pm

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