(December 20, 2011 at 6:47 pm)amkerman Wrote: Darwinning: "you cant be confident in your reasoning, because the brain from which your consciousness arises is fallible"- yes, that's true if you believe consciousness is an emergent function of complex systems. I believe that consciousness, and everything I perceive, is real beyond my own mind, however. I believe reality is objective. While I can't know that my reasoning is correct (and I admittedly don't, although I believe it is, if only some of the time) I can be confident that it might be correct, because I believe that some things are inherently true, and others inherently false.
Yes, I think this is what our difference in opinion comes down to.
I find your assertions fascinating, but cannot ascribe to them. My belief is that consciousness arises from the machinery of the brain and that machinery is falible. I wonder if you've ever been really logically wrong, intoxicated, or so ill you were confused, or knocked out. How do you explain the changes in your perceptions, if not from events in some unknowable physical reality?
