RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 14, 2020 at 11:31 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2020 at 11:33 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
I don't need an organism to experience pain and suffering to avoid harming it. Perhaps for the same reason I would be against killing people just because they're momentarily unconscious or in a coma; or even breaking someone's car because it's not alive.
I don't need mathematical certainty; but the evidence you're giving is insufficient. There's a gap that you're making these observations jump over in order to conclude consciousness. I'm not comfortable with that leap.
We can agree that if an animal consciously experiences pain, then it has mechanisms and possibly receptors for transmitting and processing that experience. That's akin to saying that if I live in Orlando, then I live in Florida. However, we know that having such mechanisms and receptors doesn't always means it's entering consciousness; all of it can be processed outside consciousness. That's akin to saying that if I live in Florida, then I live in Orlando. Which is what it seems you're doing.
Perhaps in philosophy terms such as justified mean something different; you're certainly using it in a way I wouldn't.
I don't need mathematical certainty; but the evidence you're giving is insufficient. There's a gap that you're making these observations jump over in order to conclude consciousness. I'm not comfortable with that leap.
We can agree that if an animal consciously experiences pain, then it has mechanisms and possibly receptors for transmitting and processing that experience. That's akin to saying that if I live in Orlando, then I live in Florida. However, we know that having such mechanisms and receptors doesn't always means it's entering consciousness; all of it can be processed outside consciousness. That's akin to saying that if I live in Florida, then I live in Orlando. Which is what it seems you're doing.
Perhaps in philosophy terms such as justified mean something different; you're certainly using it in a way I wouldn't.
