(July 13, 2013 at 5:29 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: This is a question to all people of any beliefs (theists, deists, polytheists, atheists, agnostics, etc). What one thing (could be anything such as a fact of nature, a philosophical dilemma, an experience etc.) makes you question the truthfulness of your own worldview the most? In other words, what's something makes you go "maybe I'm wrong about everything"?
That is a toughie, and it depends on which aspect of my worldview, because I can't think of any off the top of my head that causes me to doubt my entire worldview.
If I had to stick with metaphysical naturalism, I suppose consciousness is among the few things that might do so, though considering no one actually understands what it really is, it doesn't seem that it supports any worldview.
Quote:Also, how do you explain away such a thing (assuming you have done so already) in your mind so you can comfortably still hold your worldview?
Well, I don't understand it - and no one else seems to either - so in my case I don't need to explain it away. But with regard to other people, they might not need to explain it away. If there really is only one thing that causes doubt for a worldview, but a plethora of other supporting evidence for that view, I think most people would stick to their current one.
Quote:To me, the problem of consciousness seems to pose a problem to my naturalistic/atheistic worldview. The idea of being able to experience reality completely baffles me and makes me want to explore a supernatural explanation but when I think about it further, appealing to the supernatural to explain consciousness does not seem to explain it any better than a natural one. For now, I just put it my ever growing "I don't know" box and continue on.
Well, how would a supernatural explanation be any help at all? But yeah, it just seems to necessitate being relegated to "I don't know" for the time being.
