RE: Why do Athiests require 'proof' that God exists?
May 10, 2012 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2012 at 1:43 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 10, 2012 at 12:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: ....... This view considers some mental phenomena to be inherent properties of reality, must like mass and charge.
Both parts of this statement is nonsensical. Mass and charge are not properties of reality. Reality has existed as a perception for eons before the vaguest notion of charge and mass ever came into being.
Charge and mass are now seen as potentially emergent properties of some, by no means all, constituents of a universe that is thought (very profitably) to exist independently of any preception of reality; but which has now, through contingent events, also become perceived as part of reality by some.
So, clarify whether you assert mental phenomena to be fundamental to the perception of reality, but which is not necessarily fundamental per se to any universe that might provide an external framework in which perception of reality can emerge; or you assert that mental phenomena is indeed to fundamental per se to any universe, or a fundamental constituent that may exist independent of perception of really, but which thorugh contingents events, may have become part of perception of reality.
