RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 10, 2020 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2020 at 5:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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Again, you have some deeper objection to whether or not there are facts, or any way of knowing. I don't. I accept that those facts which inform us of the potential for non human cognizance are commensurate to any other type of fact by which we claim to know things. Commensurate, in fact, to those facts which inform us of human consciousness.
I expect that cats and bats have content that I don't..the same is true for cats and bats and my own content. I don't have a problem with that. I expect the conscious content of other conscious agents to be different. Particularly so when they're equipped with disparate sensory apparatus. Hell, they're different just between you and I. Its additionally obvious that the apparatus of cognizance itself is more well developed in some species than others. None of this reduces anything to senselessness, that's an incredible claim. Wrong with respect to everything that we know, and right by reference to no fact whatsoever. The lord of creation spread this gift far and wide, if the lord of creation was involved.
I still have no idea why this would be a problem for you. I keep asking, it obviously is, but you're not telling me why it would be.
So what if people weren't the sole possessors of conscious agency?
Again, you have some deeper objection to whether or not there are facts, or any way of knowing. I don't. I accept that those facts which inform us of the potential for non human cognizance are commensurate to any other type of fact by which we claim to know things. Commensurate, in fact, to those facts which inform us of human consciousness.
I expect that cats and bats have content that I don't..the same is true for cats and bats and my own content. I don't have a problem with that. I expect the conscious content of other conscious agents to be different. Particularly so when they're equipped with disparate sensory apparatus. Hell, they're different just between you and I. Its additionally obvious that the apparatus of cognizance itself is more well developed in some species than others. None of this reduces anything to senselessness, that's an incredible claim. Wrong with respect to everything that we know, and right by reference to no fact whatsoever. The lord of creation spread this gift far and wide, if the lord of creation was involved.
I still have no idea why this would be a problem for you. I keep asking, it obviously is, but you're not telling me why it would be.
So what if people weren't the sole possessors of conscious agency?
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