FallentoReason Wrote:It sounded like you in fact were using circular logic to be able to say that you can logically show logic doesn't apply to God. Clearly, you're using logic to investigate what it is about this being that does't allow you to apply logic to it.
Of course I'm not
Logic is circular... takes as much faith as that one might have in a God. I'm an nonlogicist. We don't do that nonsense 'round these parts.
Quote:Geewiz! Then why should I believe anything you write has any bearing on anything if it isn't grounded on any reasoning whatsoever? That's not a very convincing thing to say just before you delve into logical arguments about why reality is in my mind.
Woosh.
As for why you should believe anything I write: I'm always right. Except when I'm not. Which is on Saturday
Quote:Ask a surgeon to insert a stapler into your mind, then get back to me, if possible.
Done, she said sure. It feels almost like licorice in the mind
* Violet eats the stapler.
Quote:I think we're using two different definitions of "existence". For something to exist, it needs to occupy a part of space. This undeniably leads to this object having intrinsic properties. Sure enough, under my definition, a concept exists in the mind because there are particles in your mind that give you that thought of the concept. The particles are in no way the same as the particles that make up the object outside your mind where you can see it. Otherwise, that stapler would have killed me by now...
Because neurons aren't part of space, and mental activity occurs in some separate non-spacey realm of anti-spaciness which metaphysically takes up no space.
Maybe the cosmos does have intrinsic properties. I highly doubt that you're advanced enough to find these... I know we're not. Anyway, given that you might well have created the entirety of the universe you see: you might end up killing yourself with your mind, and never even seeing it coming XD I recommend not stepping into traffic in this persistent world of yours.
Quote:Ah, you're right. The concept that I attach to the object is in my mind.. the bus is in my mind. Wait, no it isn't because that wouldn't be very good for my brain.
The concept and the object are two different things.
Silly boy, thinking 'brain' and 'mind' are the same thing
The mind is in the brain, but the mind is not the brain. All of your objects are concepts Quote:Why do you act as if you are a part of the world? Why do you avoid fire, for example? We're all just floating minds after all.
Because I'm a hedonist, sonny. I'm totally down with this all being a nonsensical illusion of an american teenager: I'm having a good time
If it ends abruptly once they awaken, well... it's been good fellas. But you see: I have faith that the world persists outside of myself, and also faith that said world includes more persons than I. However, I note that this is faith on my part, and accept that solipsism is correct in remaining true to logic (a thing which even they must take on faith).
Quote:Yep. They can't experience tv like us. *twiddles thumbs*
I wonder what you humans can't experience
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
