(July 21, 2012 at 8:55 am)Felasco Wrote: Agreed. But being smarter than donkeys does not automatically equal being qualified to know what does or doesn't lie at the heart of all reality, an arena we can't even define.
No, being capable of understanding reality and using it for our own purposes makes us qualified for that.
(July 21, 2012 at 8:55 am)Felasco Wrote: How big is reality? Nobody has a clue.
So when we come to conclusions about all of reality based on that part which we know about, what is our sample size? Nobody has a clue.
Is it reason to come to sweeping conclusions based on a sample of unknown size? No, it's not. That's just ideology.
Size of reality? Did you just make a sweeping conclusion that reality can be measured in dimensions without having any clue or reason for it? So, according to you, humans are not qualified to make any deductions about it, but somehow you are qualified to make that deduction.