(April 21, 2019 at 4:15 am)Guard of Guardians Wrote:Quote:I don't accept that information only originates from mind(s)? Can you offer some proof of that?
It’s just a case of abductive reasoning or inference to the best explanation. In addition, we simply have no examples of information that we know originated from non-mind(s). There are areas, like Neo-Darwinian Evolution, where this is thought and often assumed to be the case, but it’s never been able to be demonstrated as such. Absent some significant proof or demonstration that information does or even can be produced from non-mind(s), we are entirely justified in believing that the best explanation is the one that provides a cause which is actually known to produce the thing in question (i.e. information).
If you're going to do that with every piece of information that's out there, then how do you expect to ever find any information that doesn't come from a mind?
(April 21, 2019 at 4:15 am)Guard of Guardians Wrote: And of course, we know on the basis of our everyday uinform and repeated experience, that information routinely arises from mind(s). The question really is, why would anyone need additional proof that such a thing is the case when our everyday common-sense experience screams out that such a thing is a clear and evident reality, onstensibly recognizeable to all?
Dude... I give you all of quantum mechanics as a counter example of this paragraph.
Common-sense experience is good enough up to a point.