Ontological Disproof of God

[emjay]

Anyway negatio, I'm gradually working my way through your OP but my first concern is that it looks like your theory is dependent on accepting a certain theory of consciousness, which looks like a dualist theory to me. Is that correct? I'm a hard determinist, so where the brain is concerned, to me consciousness at all times reflects brain states which are physical. Whether those brain states are forward looking (ie imagination or expectations) or backward looking (memories), they are still always physically encoded in the neural networks of the brain. So based on the small amount you've written about this 'ex nihilo' theory in your OP... ie granting that a full understanding would only come from reading Spinoza or Sartre... it looks most likely to me that we're going to fundamentally disagree on the nature of consciousness. I may have misunderstood, but that's all I think I can really gather at the moment, without reading Spinoza and Sartre. But basically if that's the case, that's not really a discussion I'm interested in having, because ultimately this whole site is a never ending argument between determinists and non-determinists.