RE: Question on mind
March 2, 2022 at 12:24 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2022 at 12:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Then they're begging the question, and wrong in point of fact. There doesn't have to be any reason that their preferred belief is true, and we still have no explanation for why they believe as much in the first place.
Consciousness didn't -have- to come from our brains, for example. There could have been another organ, or another mechanism. At many points in history we thought there was. Turns out that it does, is all. I think that alot of the time, you can get even the most ardent supernaturalist to agree (at least in principle) that consciousness is a product of our brains - but they can always insist that their god gave us those brains somehow. Tacit acknowledgement of the opposition point, but hey - that's what you're left with when you try to negotiate with reality, eh?
Consciousness didn't -have- to come from our brains, for example. There could have been another organ, or another mechanism. At many points in history we thought there was. Turns out that it does, is all. I think that alot of the time, you can get even the most ardent supernaturalist to agree (at least in principle) that consciousness is a product of our brains - but they can always insist that their god gave us those brains somehow. Tacit acknowledgement of the opposition point, but hey - that's what you're left with when you try to negotiate with reality, eh?
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