(May 5, 2018 at 11:29 pm)possibletarian Wrote:(May 5, 2018 at 11:22 pm)Quick Wrote: Right. And there is also a whole lot we don't know about consciousness either. I don't believe consciousness is deterministic anyways. One argument I have made about consciousness and whether we can know whether we are the only thing that exists in the past, is in our a priori knowledge that an other (could very well be a person and I don't think that changes the argument) exists in the first place. Why would this be a given in the first place? It shouldn't be, but it is. Our development of life in the first place is what I am talking about. I don't think you are making the argument that we are the "first" life form. If we are not, what is the big distinction between the universe itself being the first living thing and us?
Not sure if it's just me but I don't understand that. Could you try again ?
What do you need clarifying on?