(March 7, 2013 at 5:32 am)i win you lose.com Wrote: to the conscious mind who requires a air to exist it would see how air would be the necessity for its own existence... that doesn't mean that air has to exist but, to the conscious mind that requires it, it will always seem as a necessity... so to it, it sees a function, it's very existence... and I'll concede that this still doesn't prove that air has to exist. but at minimum it shows that it does have a function
You seem to have answered your own question. A conscious mind - the only kind of conscious mind we are familiar with, that is - requires air to exist and therefore it perceives a necessity and function to it. As you point out correctly, this doesn't imply a necessary existence nor does it indicate any function independent of that conscious mind. The same would apply to universe - any necessity or function we can perceive or expect the universe to have would be the product of our conscious mind stemming from the fact that we cannot exist without it.
