(April 22, 2013 at 12:07 am)whateverist Wrote: But we have good reason to think we have brains in our heads…As it turns out, that is the only place, so far as any one knows, any consciousness has ever been found.You are correct. To the best of our knowledge only creatures with physical brains have consciousness. That is not at issue. The point is this. The thesis that mental properties (mind) can be reduced to physical brain function is an unwarranted prejudice of atheism. As it relates to the OP, if physical reduction were possible, then all knowledge is irrational.
My conclusion from all this is this. To choose atheism over belief is to make an existential choice that cannot be rationally supported and is at the same time self-contradictory (as per Rosenberg’s argument).
