RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 19, 2020 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2020 at 12:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It isn't, but there's no point in arguing over the contents, since, as ever, a stolen concept is an issue of genetic validity. Not whether the propositions are sound, or which group of propositions are sound.
If we can't observe consciousness, we can't observe it's correlates. If we can observe it's correlates, we can observe consciousness. A person can decide to fall on either side of that line, but whichever side they fall on..they cannot then assert, and so require, the truth of the other. That, is a stolen concept.
You don't actually believe that we can observe the correlates of consciousness yourself. You don't think we can observe whether or not there is a consciousness to have correlates -at all-. There's no reason to include them in your statement, particularly when they damage the statements validity.
Now...I don't think that your position (even a repaired version of your position) is coherent, I strongly suspect that you're mistaking seeing the show a person is watching with being able to tell that a person is watching a show, and I know for a fact that you have ideological reasons to insist as much...but we're never going to get to that more accurate and more productive discussion, are we, lol?
If we can't observe consciousness, we can't observe it's correlates. If we can observe it's correlates, we can observe consciousness. A person can decide to fall on either side of that line, but whichever side they fall on..they cannot then assert, and so require, the truth of the other. That, is a stolen concept.
You don't actually believe that we can observe the correlates of consciousness yourself. You don't think we can observe whether or not there is a consciousness to have correlates -at all-. There's no reason to include them in your statement, particularly when they damage the statements validity.
Now...I don't think that your position (even a repaired version of your position) is coherent, I strongly suspect that you're mistaking seeing the show a person is watching with being able to tell that a person is watching a show, and I know for a fact that you have ideological reasons to insist as much...but we're never going to get to that more accurate and more productive discussion, are we, lol?
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