(December 3, 2020 at 11:30 am)Klorophyll Wrote:(December 3, 2020 at 10:59 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Let me get this straight: You claim that the hypothesis that God exists is based on the agreement that other minds exist, that it's an analogy, that it may be weak; and your conclusion it that if someone doesn't think a disembodied mind exists they must think embodied minds don't exist either; and not only that but it's fundamentally dishonest to accept that embodied minds exist if you don't also accept that at least one disembodied mind that designed and created the universe also exists?
Are you sure you want to stick with that?
I am not sure how you reach the additional fact that all these minds out there are embodied. That's what your senses are telling you, but they're not proof. The existence of God is not really "based" on the existence of other minds. It's just the observation that our reasons to believe in the latter should lead us to the former, if we are honest and coherent, that is.
All the minds we know with a reasonable level of certainty to exist based on observation are associated with brains. It does not necessarily follow that if embodied minds exist, disembodied ones must also exist. There's a disconnect. Literally, since you're imagining minds disconnected from bodies. It is perfectly honest and coherent to accept the existence of embodied minds without also accepting the existence of disembodied ones. It's like saying if you accept the existence of humans, you must also accept the existence of Sasquatch, else you're dishonest or incoherent.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.