RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 20, 2020 at 1:39 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2020 at 1:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The same way we "jump" from voltmeters to voltage and thermometers to temperature. Obviously I don't think that's a jump and no one doing this kind of research thinks it is either.
But that doesn't matter. Assume..that I am wrong.. that they are wrong. Assume that it is a jump, an impossible jump.
Fine, okay, but if that's the line, you can't then go making that jump yourself. We do not observe the correlates of consciousness. We observe brain activity, we observe behavior.
Still wondering whether I got the consciousness itself bit right, it's actually fairly important. Every single time I've had this same discussion on these boards...alot of times..those have been the facts of c that actually inform the position. That...that, John, would rescue your position. You don't assert facts of b and then declare that b is false, you assert facts of c to establish that b is false. You just stepped in shit in that particular statement that we've been discussing in exactly the way I've repeatedly described to you (and we've all done it, all of us). If not, it might be even more interesting, because you can introduce me to some brand new way to shit the bed.
An error of validity, not truth.
But that doesn't matter. Assume..that I am wrong.. that they are wrong. Assume that it is a jump, an impossible jump.
Fine, okay, but if that's the line, you can't then go making that jump yourself. We do not observe the correlates of consciousness. We observe brain activity, we observe behavior.
Still wondering whether I got the consciousness itself bit right, it's actually fairly important. Every single time I've had this same discussion on these boards...alot of times..those have been the facts of c that actually inform the position. That...that, John, would rescue your position. You don't assert facts of b and then declare that b is false, you assert facts of c to establish that b is false. You just stepped in shit in that particular statement that we've been discussing in exactly the way I've repeatedly described to you (and we've all done it, all of us). If not, it might be even more interesting, because you can introduce me to some brand new way to shit the bed.
An error of validity, not truth.
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