RE: Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa?
December 24, 2013 at 12:56 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2013 at 1:04 am by MindForgedManacle.)
KSA, what the hell are you talking about?
That sort of reminds me of a maxim of Pyrrohnian skepticism:
"You can't know anything, including this."
Which just makes me go straight-lipped. Anyway, does it really follow that if you are deceived completely? I don't think so. :0
However, I'm not sure your post is quite as applicable to Benny's post as you might think. I mean, all you really have in terms of having certainty in existing is your own subjective experience, right? Whatever metaphysical conclusions you draw about reality will depend on the assumptions you make about whatever may lay "behind" them. But can those assumptions ever be proven? I mean, I call myself an indirect realist, but I'd have to be honest and say that I really just assume that some kind of realism is true.
(December 23, 2013 at 11:33 pm)rasetsu Wrote: (If we are deceived, we are deceived completely, and that we are deceived, is, itself a deception. This is the same logical catch-22 that all forms of radical skepticism face. They are logically incomplete philosophies.)
That sort of reminds me of a maxim of Pyrrohnian skepticism:
"You can't know anything, including this."
Which just makes me go straight-lipped. Anyway, does it really follow that if you are deceived completely? I don't think so. :0
However, I'm not sure your post is quite as applicable to Benny's post as you might think. I mean, all you really have in terms of having certainty in existing is your own subjective experience, right? Whatever metaphysical conclusions you draw about reality will depend on the assumptions you make about whatever may lay "behind" them. But can those assumptions ever be proven? I mean, I call myself an indirect realist, but I'd have to be honest and say that I really just assume that some kind of realism is true.
