(January 17, 2014 at 5:14 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: If it is an illusion or not, who cares?
Well I care. Perhaps being bothered enough to care is the idea. What happens if we all stop caring?
I think this has largely happened to Europe which is why undergoing something of a slow death. In a few centuries I doubt there will be anything left of the former culture. It could happen in the US as well if this contagion of not giving a damn about anything takes hold.
Quote: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.
Rest assured God has not been damaged by science, if belief in God is on the decline it has nothing to do with that it's something else. It will probably end up destroying us as a culture, the collective will power of not caring will tend do that. You can see the population decline.
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Quote: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.
Nature is the world of matter we can see anything that isn't the world of matter we can see wouldn't be the world of matter we can see. So that wouldn't work by the definition of what nature is.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.