RE: evolution
March 15, 2022 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2022 at 11:21 am by Angrboda.)
(March 15, 2022 at 11:10 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: What was supposed to be absurd? I do believe that you (or humans in general) are capable of having the experiences you describe - and it does seem like those experiences can influence mental and physical events. We can add that to the massive list of incredibly specific coincidences in category b if we like, but I don't know how I'd make that case.[emphasis mine]
Objecting the the accuracy of the inputs or the parameters of the selections - feeling god where there is no god..and changing your life because of it..is still a mental event influencing other mental and physical events.
You're equivocating between the content of an experience and the intentional object of an experience. In your case, you were saying that it seems like attentional direction is in A. That would be the object, the intentional content of the experience, the "what" that the experience is about. I have no doubt that you have the experience of attentional direction seeming to be in A, but the object of that experience, being in A or not being in A is not the experience itself. The fact of attentional direction being in A is not confirmed by you having the experience that it seems to be in A. Apply the same argument to free will: I experience myself freely choosing therefore I am freely choosing. That to you is a compelling argument? And please try to keep things straight. You're wandering all over the place and I'll bore much quicker in direct proportion to how sloppy you are in your analysis.
The bolded is an ipse dixit argument. Please do not simply make assertions in lieu of argument.