(January 17, 2014 at 4:37 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:Quote:Please, tell me something the non-existence of God would mean. I bet I can tell you a few things as well.
Do you like the idea of having your own rational logical freethinking mind? I don't mean the illusion of a rational logical freethinking mind but the real thing. Do you like the idea of being genuinely able to make your own rational moral decisions? Do you like like the idea of people being genuinely responsible for themselves and their own actions? Of course you do but if you were to understand that there would be no naturalist or material basis for these things you quite to experience a high degree of cognitive dissonance as you try to fight against what you subjectively know.
If it is an illusion or not, who cares? It does the trick pretty damn well. So good in fact, that most of the big questions once relegated strictly to God until 400-500 years ago have seen their shores drying up like a lake in the desert.
Finally, have you ever heard of naturalistic dualism? David Chalmers? I don't agree with his position but he certainly shows that there is nothing logically impossible with developing a separate ontology for consciousness without appealing to some Divine Creator.
