RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 11, 2019 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2019 at 7:57 am by bennyboy.)
(March 11, 2019 at 5:44 am)Belaqua Wrote:(March 11, 2019 at 12:10 am)bennyboy Wrote: What about the brain makes a person with it experience consciousness?
For what it's worth, I think you're describing everything here just right.
It's very frustrating that everyone thinks it's so easy to object to what you're saying, yet every objection just reveals that they don't understand the issues involved. After all the previous threads about qualia and p-zombies and all that, you'd think it would all be clear.
Just the fact that people need to type childish insults indicates that probably there's something emotional going on. Something is preventing the understanding of things that aren't really so hard.
The blue pill is real. The irony is that in one generation, it presents as faith in ancient myths, and in another, an irrationally confident belief in a purely objective reality, even though the concept of objectivity itself must be experienced through subjective agency in order to exist.
(March 11, 2019 at 7:50 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: They may not be readily distinguishable, but that's an epistemological problem, and doesn't in itself argue that they are not wholly different, only that it is difficult to identify when one is the one, or when it is the other.
Please forgive me, but would you mind specifying which one or the other you mean? I'm interested in what you're saying, but I don't want to get it wrong.
