RE: Nondualism vs Dualism
April 16, 2019 at 10:44 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 10:45 pm by vulcanlogician.)
As far as I stand, "nondualism" has no coherent idea uniting it. Dualism has the whole "consciousness and materiality are distinct" thing uniting it. When you really think about it, consciousness and material reality ARE distinct somehow. But we've yet to figure out the nature of that "somehow." So I don't dismiss dualists right out of the gate. But they have a lot of explaining to do. Explaining they haven't really done yet.
So it's a mystery.
That's hardly cause for alarm. Many things are a mystery to us mere mortals, (What goes on inside a black hole's event horizon? Why do laws governing the quantum world seemingly conflict with relativity?) We are trying to use observation and logic to puzzle out the universe... that's not going to provide absolute answers to every question.
But what you call "god" seems like a cop out to me. It's evading the question rather than answering it.
But, I could be wrong about that. Maybe what you call "God" is the solution to the puzzle. The real question is this: why should I accept your answer of God as the solution? What evidence or reasoning supports that thesis?
So it's a mystery.
That's hardly cause for alarm. Many things are a mystery to us mere mortals, (What goes on inside a black hole's event horizon? Why do laws governing the quantum world seemingly conflict with relativity?) We are trying to use observation and logic to puzzle out the universe... that's not going to provide absolute answers to every question.
But what you call "god" seems like a cop out to me. It's evading the question rather than answering it.
But, I could be wrong about that. Maybe what you call "God" is the solution to the puzzle. The real question is this: why should I accept your answer of God as the solution? What evidence or reasoning supports that thesis?
