(December 23, 2011 at 4:43 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Pick an axiom that you feel can be approached no other way, that must simply be accepted or rejected.
I would pick the axiom: I exist.
(December 23, 2011 at 4:43 pm)Rhythm Wrote: "If we can't prove (as truth) that we exist then we don't have consciousness - at least not in my original argument."
There's the trouble. Your argument is not the cosmos. You have an argument of definitions, not an argument over substance.
I agree I have an argument of definitions (which definitely has its limits), but what would an argument over substance look like?
Brevity is the soul of wit.